PARLY OPENING: NO AIR-CONDITION TENDER FOR CORRECTIONAL

LOBAMBA - His Majesty’s Correctional Services (HMCS) will not be providing air-conditioning services this year during the State Opening of Parliament.

This was revealed yesterday by Clerk to Parliament, Ndvuna Dlamini, during the first preparatory meeting for the official State Opening of the Second Session of the 11th Parliament by His Majesty King Mswati III, which is expected to take place soon.

During the postmorterm of last year’s Parliament opening, it was revealed that the major disaster was the air-conditioning in the marquee where the luncheon was held after the King had officially opened Parliament.

It was reported that the marquee was too hot because, for some reason, the air conditioners were not properly functioning.   
First to address the issue was Nhlanhla Zwane, who is the coordinator of the Technical Committee. He informed the meeting that things did not go well last year in the marquee because it was too hot.

Blame

He said although he did not want to shift blame, there was also an issue with those who were in charge of security, as they informed those who were supposed to monitor the marquee that they were supposed to have different types of accreditation tags.
Zwane said the power in the marquee was very low, which was why once the formal proceedings in the chamber were completed, they would then transfer the power to the tent.

He said, however, last year the staff which was supposed to man the marquee was kicked out by security personnel and were even threatened with physical harm.

Ndvuna, who was chairing the meeting, said the Correctional Services had been assigned to monitor air conditioners and wanted a report on why they were not working.

A representative from the HMCS said unfortunately he was new to this assignment, but asked if he could go and prepare the report on what had occurred last year and present it at the next meeting.

King’s Office Chief Protocol Officer Khandlela Mdluli said in the report, they should present a way forward.
The clerk to Parliament said the matter had been too serious and had to be discussed at security level.

EBIS technician Mbuyazwe Dlamini submitted that during other national events, for example the King’s Birthday, the companies which were contracted to provide air-conditioning came with their own power or generators instead of depending on other sources of power.   

           
It was at this point that Ndvuna said the tender had already been issued and this time it would go to another company and not the Correctional Services.

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