‘PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE’

Sir,

Thank you for allowing me space in your widely read newspaper to voice out my concern.

I normally use the Mbabane-Manzini freeway route almost on a daily basis. Many people will concur with me that the part from Elangeni Primary School to the overhead bridge next to Elangeni High School is normally crowded with pupils from the school almost every morning and afternoon. The reason is that the police, who are normally standing under that overhead bridge, do not allow the kombis to drop the pupils at the bridge, the reason being that it is not a station but it is there for crossing purposes.

My concern is why do the police allow the pupils to walk from the primary school station on the road which normally lasts 20 minutes while allowing kombis to drop them under the bridge will not even take two minutes?

I may not know how the police do their thinking but according to me, that kind of thinking is against common sense!
What if a car loses control while the pupils are on the road and plunges into them?

How many lives will be lost? While that would have been avoided by allowing the kombis to drop the pupils under that bridge and they are immediately away from the road! Or police must just make sure that when the pupils alight at the primary station they just cross there immediately.
Sir, I believe that the adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ must apply here than forcing the police PRO to give ludicrous statements denying police involvement when an accident which would have been avoided has happened.

Magnificent
Lobamba

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