SOME VOCAL MPS REFUTE GOVT SABOTAGE CLAIMS

MBABANE – Government is delivering and not sabotaging parliamentarians who are critical of it.

This is according to a majority of Members of Parliament (MPs) who dismissed assertions that government is not bringing services to constituencies of legislators who criticise it. In fact, several MPs have praised government for what they termed as service delivery on a number of projects which are ongoing under their various tinkhundla. The MPs have come to government’s ‘defence’ following a leaked audio recording where Nkwene MP Vulimpompi Nhleko said politicians who were less affluent were not vocal in Parliament because projects in their constituencies ended up being sabotaged or stopped.

The MP had made the utterances during a community meeting of the completion of a hall with Buseleni residents, where he submitted that if one spoke out, nothing would ever be done for their constituencies.  However, several MPs begged to differ on the issue with one of them, a known government critic being Mhlume MP Victor Malambe. MP Malambe was one of the most vocal when government tried to introduce the Bill legalising the licensing of cannabis for medicinal purposes when he stated that government wanted to destroy the ordinary liSwati by taking the market away from them.

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However, MP Malambe said this did not stop government from delivering a E2 million community hall project which was currently under construction at Lusoti. He said this would be a multi-purpose hall and that construction had started in February this year. MP Malambe said this would not only be used by the pupils to sit for exams or other things, but that the community would use it as a meeting area for any other activities.   He highlighted that another project under his constituency was that of a tractor services hire, where government, through the Rural Development Fund (RDF), had purchased a tractor complete with implements for the use of Mafucula residents, which cost around E800 000.

He further stated that in his constituency, there was a recently introduced a service centre where the members of the public could get documents like passports. “Through Micro-Projects we have also created three markets at Simunye, kaNgomane and Mafucula where the women are selling their wares,” said MP Malambe. He said it was  critical for other MPs including the Executive that they were not criticising or fighting the Head of  State, but the Executive arm of government which was tasked with service delivery after being appointed into their positions.

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