‘DAGGA DEALERS STRIPPED, BEAT ME UP’

MANZINI - A 70-year-old mkhulu, who is a herdman in businessman Tommy Kirk’s farm, is surely thanking the timely intervention of community members for saving his life in the hands of ruthless dagga dealers. 

This was after the old man was allegedly taken to a mountain by a mob of dagger farmers, who stripped him naked and assaulted him for allegedly spying on them to the police.

The incident took place at Nyakeni on Monday morning, and it was after police officers raided the area and destroyed dagga fields. Some of the dagga fields were destroyed in a farm owned by well-known businessman  Kirk, where Mbholofidi Ginindza (70) is working as a security and herdman.

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However, the businessman is not linked to the growing of dagga in the farm, as it was gathered that the alleged farmers were doing it without his knowledge.
According to Ginindza, the police came to destroy dagga in the area in the wee hours of Monday. He said when they left around 9:30am, two men came to him while he was inside the farm and asked that he goes with them to a nearby homestead.

Upon arriving at the homestead, Ginindza alleged that he found a group of about 10 men, who asked him to narrate why he and the police destroyed their dagga in the farm.
“I told them that I knew nothing about dagga and I referred them to the owner of the farm and the police,” he said.

He said while they were interrogating him, elders of the community kicked them out of the homestead and said it was not a place for hearing cases. “They dragged me to a nearby forest where they assaulted me with fists and kicks all over the body,” he alleged.

However, he claimed that some of them argued that the forest was close to homesteads and suggested that they should take him to a nearby mountain.
He said when they arrived at the mountain, they ordered him to take off his clothes including shoes, something he did not do. He said the mob forcefully undressed him and threw him on the gravel road at the top of the mountain and demanded answers as to when he was going to give them back their dagga which was destroyed by the police, after he tipped them off about the illegal herb which they were growing in the farm.

“I maintained that I did not know how the police learnt about it because I had no clue that there were dagga fields in the farm,” he alleged.

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