THE man who stabbed and killed his wife and nine-month pregnant daughter in Kadoma has been described by neighbours as a very violent individual who was once forced to compensate a colleague, whom he had attacked, by giving him a fridge. Obert Namurokosi (45) made headlines this week when it emerged that he stabbed his daughter Takudwa (23) several times and then turned the knife on his wife Cynthia (45). Cynthia had sought refuge at her daughter’s place after a row between the couple the previous day.
Obert handed himself to the police after committing the murder. Neighbours have told H-Metro that Obert was a very abusive man. “Obert was always fighting with his wife, the fights were sometimes physical.
I always wondered why Cynthia did not report him to the police. “Unfortunately, I did not know the family that well,” said one of the neighbours. Another neighbour said Obert had a history of violence, including attacking his colleagues.
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A case was filed against him by one of his colleagues, whom he had attacked, and Obert was ordered to pay US$400 in compensation, which he settled by surrendering his fridge to the victim. “Obert took early retirement at his workplace, then spent all his pension fund alone and did not share a single penny with his wife. “Obert’s wife was a teacher, so that’s how she sustained herself.
“However, one day Obert told his wife to take out a loan because they also wanted to build a house but she refused, saying they could have used his pension money to do so. “This is when things escalated. Obert became physical with his wife and she ran away to her daughter, who was nine months pregnant and also had one child.” Cynthia spent the night at her daughter’s place, not knowing it would be her last.
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