‘DRIVERS LET CONDUCTORS DRIVE WHILE THEY GO FOR SEX’

MBABANE – The high number of road traffic accidents involving public transport vehicles have been partly attributed to drivers who allow their conductors to drive the kombis while they go to engage in sexual escapades with their girlfriends.

It has been revealed that kombi drivers allegedly abandon their duties to conductors to hole up in one roomed flats for sexual escapades.
It is alleged that most of their targets are school girls.

Mpolonjeni (Mbabane) and Fairview (Manzini) commuters have voiced their concerns over the drivers who allow conductors to drive.
Commuters, speaking on condition of anonymity, said drivers often hand over vehicles to conductors even before reaching the intended destination. “This is directly affecting us as customers because our lives are exposed to danger,” the commuters said. They explained that regardless of voicing out their dissatisfaction for conductors to be behind the steering wheel, they were often brushed off and whatever they said fell on deaf ears.
This bad practice, it was said, was prevalent mostly during the afternoon hours and it was getting out of hand.

Late last year, a kombi driven by an unlicensed conductor rolled several times with seven U-Tech pupils on board, killing two while the others were badly injured.
Recently, five passengers died tragically after a kombi they were travelling in rammed into a waiting room, causing it to collapse and literally bury them alive.
Most of the commuters interviewed highlighted the recklessness of drivers who raced for customers while they were on board.

 Swaziland Local Kombi Association Chairman Sabelo Dlamini said they had received reports about some drivers who abandoned their duties to their conductors while they enjoyed the company of women in rented flats.
Dlamini said they were also aware that some of the drivers gave the conductors the vehicles for ‘practice’.

“This is not acceptable at all. Conductors are not allowed to be behind the steering wheel at any given point in time,” insisted Dlamini.
He implored commuters who came across such incidences to report to the police by calling the emergency number 999.

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