WE DONT FEEL SAFE!

The Kingdom of Eswatini is ranked eighth among the countries of the world with the highest murder rates. This is according to international homicide rate statistics made by the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime.

It is calculated based on the number of murders per 100 000 people. In the region, we are worse than South Africa (10th) and only one better than Lesotho (7th). 

However, recent killings around the country suggest that we may soon surpass the murder capital of the world, Honduras, if we don’t curb this spree. Not a second day seems to go by without a citizen killing another.

The spike in killings is partly attributed to rituals propagated by the naive thinking that human body parts provide a lottery winning ticket at the national elections.

This is disgraceful, to say the least, for a country celebrating 50 years of independence but still stuck in archaic witchcraft beliefs. The law and law enforcement agencies are evidently failing to stop these killings, despite security consuming the second highest allocation in the national budget. For what?

This should raise the red flags to the populace that unless we begin to vote with integrity for people of good moral standing in our society, we will soon die like flies.

The worst we could ever do for our own safety is to place murderers and thugs in our Parliament who have no value for a human being. We need MPs who value the life of our women and children; the type that would have long seen to it that the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Bill becomes law.

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