Stockley Kauojao left with co-accused Muvare Kaporo and Mathew Kakururume in D Courtroom of the Windhoek High Court

The first day of the resumption of trial into Aminuis community police officer Wilfred Kazeurua’s murder followed a frustrating script for his relatives who drove long distances to attend court.

Stockley Kauojao refused to testify in his defence and responded to all questions by saying that his right to fair trial was being violated.

He repeatedly gave Lawyer Jan Wessels that response to a series of questions over calls Kauojao placed to Farm Brazil headman, Jesaya Daniel and witness Usiel Kamutjemo.

Wessels wanted to know why Kauojao called both Daniel and Kamutjemo a total of 33-times from the ninth-to-15th of December 2012 and went two-weeks without calling them.

He was relying on phone records placed in evidence.

Afas Kamutjemo’s lawyer asserted that Kauojao resumed and sustained calls to Daniel for 10-days starting on 31st of December 2012.

Kauojao gave the same answer to querries about 3 cellphone numbers Wessels had said the trio-used regularly to communicate with each other.

At one time in the proceedings yesterday (mon) afternoon, Judge Alfred Siboleka directed Wessels to be specific with dates after the lawyer had hinted at the period of inactivity in calls among the 3 as the time when late Majora had captured Mathew Kakururume and Muvare Kaporo.

The parting shot had to do with the absence of Kauojao’s witnesses. When Judge Siboleka cancelled Kauojao’s bail and ordered the former case prosecutor, Dominic Lisulo, to help Kauojao bring his witnesses to court.

Siboleka asked Kauojao whether he wanted State’s help in bringing his witnesses to court. He further wanted to know why in 6 months that the case had been postponed Kauojao had not provided the State his list of witnesses.

Kauojao replied by saying that Judge Siboleka had in fact ordered Lisulo to come to him. He said Lisulo never came and the police officers who came to him last week ( One week to the resumption of trial) , Neels Becker and another, could not provide assurances about whether the witnesses will be accommodated while they are testifying.

His further noted that he did not know whether his lawyer will need use all the witnesses Kauojao had intended to call. He asked for time to consult his lawyer about the witnesses which Judge Siboleka granted until this morning (12 April 2022).