A Finnish nurse, Kaino KOVANEN, who works at a church mission hospital in Ovamboland, has been ordered to leave Ovamboland immediately. The expulsion order was confirmed by the homeland's Executive Committee, and was apparently made in connection with the assassination of a senior Ovambo headman during an attack on the hospital in early November 1980. It seems that Ms Kovanen had complained about the presence of policemen at the hospital to the Ovambo executive member in charge of health and asked that they be removed.
An official of the homeland administration said it was now up to the Administrator General's office to decide whether Ms. Kovanen would be allowed to stay in Namibia.
