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THE biological father of the late Wilfred Eiseb (5) who was allegedly murdered by his stepfather at Walvis Bay a week ago says he would not wish what he is feeling on his worst enemy.

An emotional 38-year-old Riaan Reinholdt So-/oab from Windhoek told The Namibian telephonically last week that he regrets delaying plans to reunite with his son and bring Wilfred to live with him.

“I cannot really say how I am feeling right now.

My son and I did not really have a close relationship due to personal reasons. I was planning to take him and his eight-year-old brother to live with me this year, because he was the missing piece in my life.

I would have eased the burden on their mother. I was excited to know my son who was taken from me by another man.

“I really do not want to imagine what happened at that moment when my son’s life was taken away. I am angry, confused, destroyed and humiliated by what was done to me and my family,” he said.

The father of four had already lost a three-year-old boy eight years ago.

He said that it was a shocking moment when he received the call that would forever change his life.

“I was at Gobabis with my girlfriend when we received the call from my elder sister.

She did not want to tell me directly and rather talked to my girlfriend. My 13-year-old daughter, Carmen Keis, is shocked and keeps saying that it is unfair. I do not know how to tell my eight-year-old son Riando. Memory and I had two sons.”

He last saw his son in June 2022, when he visited his mother’s family in Windhoek, he said.

He is appealing to men to seek help when they face problems instead of becoming abusive.

“I really do not know what the mother was going through, but I plead with men to stop abusing women and children. What she was going through and what happened to her and our son was not fair,” he said.

So-/oab is a medical student at the Osmed Medical School.

The family is preparing to travel to Gibeon for Wilfred’s funeral which will take place on saturday.