EX-MP EVICTS VENDORS FROM HIS LAND AFTER LOSS

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.

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