WHEN I LEAVE I WILL GET MY SALARY - SPEAKER

Sir,

As a young citizen of this country who happens to follow Parliament procedures with keen interest, I was shocked, disappointed and further embarrassed by the way or rather these words, ‘nangiphuma lana ngiyohola’ from this country’ Speaker in Parliament.

This follows the chaos that took place in the House on the Monday of June 13. Usually those words are said by a person who is not qualified to be in a leadership position.

Apart from Parliament, in committees when you failed to come up with a resolution of a certain topic, obviously in the next sitting you will start with the pending topics.

In this case the honourable Speaker was advise by our seasoned legislators that if a matter that had been discussed in the last sitting of the House was aborted because of the MPs not being able to form a quorum, that matter is usually the first on the agenda of the next sitting and of course a number of MPs advised him, including the deputy prime minister, but he still insisted and rejected their advice. What the Speaker did is a serious cause for concern. If we are going to have Parliament presiding officers who will put their salaries ahead of the country, it’s a serious cause for concern. How could he?

If we will have a Speaker who will reject advice even from the head of government, then we need to act as a country. The truth will remain, ‘kuncono kuvikela kunekwelapha’. Honestly what does the Speaker mean by this statement? Is he saying as parliamentarians the only thing they care about is their salaries, not the country and its citizens?

Remember that this is not the first time the Speaker has ignored advice from other legislators and I think he thinks that he is above everyone else in Parliament. For how long will he continue doing or saying things that will jeopardise and send the wrong message about the country’s system of governance?

We don’t need his kind of officers in our society, usifundzisani tsine? We are on the road of showing the world the beautiful part of being governed by the Tinkhundla system but people who are supposed to be our leaders are saying, ‘nangiphuma lapha ngiyohola’. That was a childish statement as well as a dangerous one from the Speaker of the Parliament of Swaziland. I have lost hope that there will ever be anything tangible that will come from our Parliament. I do not see any progress in the House if there are going to be people who put their salaries first.

Ronnie Dlamini
GEGE

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