Times Of Swaziland: WE NEED ANSWERS!

WE NEED ANSWERS!
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The Editor on 10/12/2018 08:58:00


It gets worse by the day.
Yesterday we woke up to revelations that some government vehicles have been
found to be registered in the name of a government employee. These are no
ordinary cars but the controversial luxury BMWs bought for the ministers serving
in the Barnabas Dlamini-led Cabinet. The employee denies playing any part in
this anomaly, except to have served as a messenger in filing the documents for
their registration. Strangely, some were correctly registered as State property
while others ‘belong’ to him. We dare ask how many government cars are
registered in the name of the ‘messenger’? This warrants a full blown
investigation to determine the extent of this practice and to call upon the
Central Transport Administration (CTA) to account for all government vehicles.
Such a probe is all the more necessary when considering a past incident where a
government-purchased truck was found in the hands of a private construction
company.
Not to mention a govt car that was found to be registered in  the name of an
influential citizen. We have also had a case of a car parts syndicate that was
busted servicing public transport owners. We are yet to be convinced that
government fuel theft has been addressed given the failure of the previous
government to curb government vehicle abuse. The latest revelation presents
Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini with bulging paperwork for the anti-corruption
crusade and we expect no less than the vigor with which the office of the
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has adopted in using the Prevention of
Organised Crime Act of 2018 (POCA), to confiscate property from those suspected
to have acquired it through ill-gotten means.
It is becoming more apparent each day that some executive decisions taken by the
previous Cabinet were detrimental to the economy and these decisions need to be
reviewed for purposes of prosecution. Gifting the ministers these BMWs is one of
them. These ministers wrecked an economy but continued to entitle themselves to
State property worth almost half a million Emalangeni without paying a cent for
it. This can’t be right! Neither is considering any of the former Cabinet
ministers to serve in public office given the shambolic state in which they left
our economy.