FOUR PREGNANT RECRUITS EXPELLED

MBABANE – A little over a month into police training, four police recruits have been expelled after it was discovered that they were pregnant.
The four women were among the over 400 recruits who started training at the Matsapha Police College on May 11, 2015.

On June 22, 2015, medical practitioners at Matsapha Police College Clinic, in conjunction with a doctor from the Mbabane Government Hospital, discovered that they were pregnant when they conducted pregnancy tests.
This resulted in the college’s Commandant and Regional Commissioner Vusi Masuku to terminate their training at the college.

The Times SUNDAY is privy to information that the four, whose identities are known to this publication but will not be disclosed for ethical reasons, were made to call their parents to discuss the issue and they admitted that they were pregnant.

An inside source told this publication that the college seniors decided to redo the pregnancy tests on the female recruits after noticing that one of the trainees had a bulging stomach.
They had suspected that she might be pregnant and the suspicions were confirmed when it turned out that she was about six months pregnant.
Three others were also nabbed.

In a memorandum directed to the National Commissioner of Police Isaac Magagula dated June 26, 2015, Commandant Masuku said the college, acting on the strength of the findings, interviewed the recruits and they individually submitted police reports wherein they requested to withdraw from the training.
He also said exit interviews for the recruits were conducted by him and other senior officials from the college.

These were the deputy commandant and second-in-charge, Training Wing.
He said the four requested ‘in their voices’ to withdraw or terminate their training as police recruits.
“Finally, in my capacity as Regional Commissioner and Commandant of the Police College, hereby propose and recommend to the esteemed office of the National Commissioner to grant each or all of them their wish to terminate/withdraw their training as prayed for with effect from June 26, 2015,” Masuku stated in the memorandum, which this newspaper’s reporter has seen.

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