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DO WE NEED A PUBLIC PROTECTOR?

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Sir,

Thank you for giving me space to air my views on the way national funds are used with impunity.
These days everything has become expensive because of Value Added Tax but government is refusing to increase salaries for civil servants.


Our radio station bought a public address system for E2 million!
This is not a small amount of money by any standards. That’s a lot of money to pay for a sound system! By the way did South Africa spend so much to get a public address system for their stadium in 2010?


Benefits


What does a radio station need a public address system for? It’s only the supplier that benefits from this.
 We also have the E3.5 million toilet saga. This amount was paid out for the building of 10 manholes.
How on earth could money be spent like this in this country? Maybe we need a Public Protector here in Swaziland as well. There should be someone who says no to reckless public spending.


If the money is used to construct schools or hospitals or build roads, we shall all benefit and that is what we all want.
We can’t be paying tax for only a few citizens to be enjoying, driving expensive cars while we continue to walk on the dusty roads. Enough! Parliament or someone has to come to our rescue?

Anele Dlamini,
Manzini

 

 

Dear Anele


You are correct in calling for a curbing of reckless spending because it undoubtedly hinders the collective progress of the kingdom. We do however, have a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which is made up of the Parliamentarians whose rescue you are calling upon. The role of the PAC is to ensure the different government ministries account for all the money spent on their various projects. Hopefully when the time comes for the next session we will all receive fear-allaying responses.


Editor

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