Those who fought on the frontline of the battlefield, such as former PLAN combatant Ndeulikufa Kalomoh, recollected his fond memories of Sam Nujoma.

Kalomoh, whose combat name is Hakushinda, was 20 years old when he fled from Namibia into Angola to join the liberation struggle in 1974.

He received military training in 1975 at Kasapa, in Angola.

He recounts the moments he met Nujoma.

"I met the Founding President in the Tobias Hainyeko training centre in Lubango. From there he came again in 1978; that's when I met him for the second time. They came for the central committee meeting of the Swapo Party. I was selected to be one of the bodyguards to guard him during that central committee meeting."

Kalomoh was the first commander deployed to the Kavango northern frontline in 1976, under PLAN's Commander-in-Chief Nujoma's instructions.

He further described the late statesman as someone who was always consulted when visiting any region.

"Whenever he visits the region, he will consult. He liked consultation. Then before he goes and addresses, he will coordinate and consult everybody in the region."

Erickson Hauwanga is also a former PLAN fighter.

"Dr. Nuyoma, when I met him in 1974, I was 19 years old. So, I was just a very young boy. He was my mother; he was my father. He was my everything. He had one word I liked; he said, "Independence is done; let us work now," but now other people thought independence was just sitting at home; the food would come for free. There is nothing like that."