I WAS BARNABAS’S SECRET AGENT – GHANAIAN MAN

MBABANE – Did the late Prime Minister (PM) Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini engage a secret agent to investigate the affairs of the country?

A Ghanaian national has since come out to make disquieting allegations on how he was secretly engaged by the former PM to investigate corrupt practices in the Kingdom of Eswatini.
He claimed that for this job, the late premier first paid him E500 000 cash and later E42 000 per month. Chris Van Annan alleged that he arrived in the country on or about March 18, 2018. He is currently languishing in custody after he was arrested and charged with eight counts of theft under false pretence on September 28, 2018. Coincidentally, this is the same day the late former PM died. He has for the past three months been held at the Manzini Remand Centre.

Van Anna claimed that he came into the country at the instance of the late PM. According to the accused, when he arrived in the country, Dlamini made sure that he was received well and further furnished him with what was called a SADC Countries’ Pass Order, which was to expire in 2021. SADC is the Southern African Development Community. He said he arrived through the King Mswati III International Airport where he used his Ghana passport number G0880565 and was immediately cleared by the Immigration Department. “I humbly submit that he used to affectionately call me his ‘son’ and further advised me that I must see myself as liSwati and not as a foreigner,” he alleged.

He further claimed he was advised that the Pass Order would enable him to travel anywhere in the SADC countries and he (Barnabas) did this despite him having a valid travel document.
He narrated that the contract he had with the late former PM was to expire on November 19, 2021. “In terms of the contract, my assignment was to investigate the reason why there were a lot of companies in the country yet the Kingdom of Eswatini was not developing. I was given an order to investigate every irregularity found within government and report them to his office,” said Van Annan.

Faith

According to Van Annan, Dlamini stated that he had faith in him because of what he saw in the internet concerning the Tiger Eye Africa and the Arimyaw Anas videos. Van Annan alleged that he was the founder of these companies which their mandate was to investigate corrupt practices within Africa and beyond and to report its findings to the authorities of those countries. He alleged that the former PM told him that after seeing his (Van Annan) work, he believed that he could uncover the reasons for the country’s failing economy.
The Ghanaian national went on to claim that, the late PM paid him in cash all the time.

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