President Hage Geingob has conferred a state funeral on late Advocate Vekuii Reinhard Rukoro, Ombara Otjitambi of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority. Rukoro aged 66 died today. Advocate Rukoro's remains will be interred on a date and place yet to be announced. President Geingob extends his deepest sympathies to the bereaved wife, Mrs Dinah Jorokee Rukoro, the children, the entire family, Ovaherero Traditional Authority, the Ovaherero people and the nation at large, on the loss of Ombara Otjitambi. Geingob says Rukoro was a sentinel leader who predicated his life to the cause of justice for the Ovaherero people. His death is a great loss at this watershed moment in the country's history.