Times Of Swaziland: EX-MP EVICTS VENDORS  FROM HIS LAND AFTER LOSS

EX-MP EVICTS VENDORS  FROM HIS LAND AFTER LOSS
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 BY NTOMBI MHLONGO on 28/09/2018 04:29:00


MBABANE – Former Kwaluseni Member of Parliament (MP) Mkhosi Dlamini’s
crashing out of the elections has cost some residents their only way of earning
a living.
Following his loss in the Secondary Elections which took place last Friday, the
former legislator has evicted two vendors he accommodated to operate small
businesses on his land when he became an MP in 2013.
The vendors, it has been alleged, had constructed shacks on the land, with one
selling flame grilled chicken, popularly referred to as ‘chicken dust’,
while another operated a barbershop.
The land is situated at his home next to Logoba area. Dlamini is reported to
have informed the two that since he had lost his seat as an MP, it was time to
pursue some business projects that would help him generate income. One of the
vendors is said to have obliged and demolished his shack while the other
resisted.
This, it has been alleged, led to the former legislator sending some boys to
demolish the remaining shack. The resisting vendor allegedly told Dlamini that
he had no right to remove them from the land and argued that it did not belong
to him but government. Called for comment, the former MP confirmed that he had
ordered the vendors out of his land as he now wanted to develop it for different
business projects.
Dlamini first stated that the period they had agreed on had actually elapsed.
“In 2013, these boys came and requested to use my place to operate a
‘chicken dust’ business and I agreed. I told them that when I needed the
place, they will have to vacate it,” he said.