SEC BROKE THE LAW IN ELECTROCUTED WORKMAN INQUIRY – CIC

MBABANE – The Swaziland Electricity Company (SEC) has allegedly breached the provisions of the Construction Industry Council Act for refusing to appear before the Construction Industry Council (CIC) to deliberate how an employee of a sub-contractor was electrocuted.

Sometime in December 2014, a Lulamile Investments employee was electrocuted while fixing a damaged power line after a blackout due to heavy rains. This happened along the Lusushwana – Bethany corridor. 

The incident caused the CIC to set up a commission of inquiry to determine what caused the death of  Thula Mabuza who was 26 years old at the time of his demise. The CIC is an umbrella body for all companies that deal with construction works. SEC is alleged to have failed to appear before the commission arguing that it was not supposed to report to the CIC.

CIC Chief Executive Officer Enziwe Dube, in an interview, said the electricity supplier and Lulamile Investments were called to appear before the commission set up by the council but only the latter showed up.

“The objective of the commission was to ascertain what had happened resulting in the death. Secondly, we wanted to establish if SEC has standard operating procedures that it requires sub-contractors to follow. In the event those operating procedures are there, we wanted to know whether or not they were adhered to by the contractor. In the event they were not in place we then wanted to assist SEC to develop them to avoid a similar occurrence in the future,” Dube said. 

Representatives of Lulamile Investments are said to have made an appearance before the commission of inquiry and made presentations concerning what transpired before Mabuza got electrocuted while attending to the power line.

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