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‘437 INMATES AWAITING TRIAL’

14/02/2024 14:20:00 Editor

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Sir,

Let’s stop living in denial; we are taking things very lightly. Politicians should understand that every life is valuable, irrespective of the status of a citizen. If anything, they should take the blame of terribly and shamelessly messing up the judicial system. People are languishing in jail with no end in sight and our politicians, past and present, should bury their heads in the sand.

Scary

It is scary that the judicial system has a battered image and it offers what one could describe as an unmitigated disaster and stagnation. It fails woefully to satisfy the yearnings and aspirations of the people of the present day Eswatini. How much longer can emaSwati endure the insensitivity and oppression by the country’s judicial system? Or is outrageous that the commissioner general of His Majesty’s Correctional Service had to seek the chief justice’s intervention in a matter that he should have been aware of. How on earth do people languish in jail since 2019 without having their day in court? We, the taxpayers, are the ones who have to bear this burden as the inmates are being fed through our taxes.

Sue

What is worse is that they might even sue government and succeed for this gross dereliction of duty. Our collective grief and worries have reached frightening levels. Anxiety has rattled down everyone’s nerves, families are worried. We are all living in fear, fear of being oppressed by our very own politicians and public servant who are supposed to be working in the best interest of the nation. Such issues have embarrassed this country many times over and left it gravely wounded in the eyes of the world. The fact that some could be languishing in jail unnecessarily, retells the odious rat-race, ideological vacuity and mundane craving that typifies Eswatini’s political life. To this end, it calls to question the moral integrity and character of those who are in government.