Staff Reporter
SAM Pendapala Nepando, the headman of the Onelago village in the Oshikoto Region who was shot and killed recently while he and Iikokola village headman I-Ben Nashandi were attempting to find a solution to a dispute over a fenced-off piece of land on 2 January, was laid to rest on Saturday.
The funeral service took place at his traditional homestead, while the burial took place in the Onamutene Cemetery.
Photos: Contributed.
He is survived by his wife, Kornelia Amunyela-Nepando, and five children.
Meanwhile, Nashandi, the village headman and National Planning Commission executive director who survived the attack with serious bullet wounds, is still hospitalised, now in a stable condition.
Sinskus Johannes was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting incident, and when he appeared in the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court on Monday, the case was postponed to 18 June. He was remanded in custody.
