Landless residents at Oshakati have defied traditional norms and beliefs by erecting their dwellings in a graveyard of the Omahenene informal settlement. Besides illegally erecting shacks in the graveyard, several residents have put up poles with the intention to fence-off portions of the graveyard land for their own use. Although the unauthorised squatting and fencing-off of graveyard land is said to be taking place during the night, concerned residents of Omahenene informal settlement told Nampa that a few individuals were spotted illegally demarcating the plots during the day. A group of five unidentified young men were also found erecting a shack when a Nampa reporter visited the graveyard on Wednesday. Concerned residents said that the dire need for residential plots for low-income earners had taken the fear out of people building their dwellings in the graveyard. Asked if the Oshakati Town Council was aware of this unauthorised activity, Mayor Katrina Shimbulu said the council had passed a resolution banning illegal squatting at the town. The Chief Executive Officer of Oshakati, Werner Iita, was not immediately available for comment as he was in a meeting.