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FLAS OFFICER DEMANDS AIRTIME FROM TRAINING PARTICIPANTS

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MBABANE – While it is a good initiative aimed at equipping the youth with life skills, a cunning youth instructor has messed up a Family Life Association of Swaziland (FLAS) programme because of greed.


According to information relayed to the Times SUNDAY, the training programme that was being run at Dumako Neighbourhood Care Point was aimed at empowering young people with information and life skills to make informed decisions regarding their health, especially, with regard to HIV prevention.


Dumako is an area located in the Shiselweni region and it is under Sandleni Constituency. 
Skills such as decision making, self-esteem and negotiating skills are said to have been prioritised during the training.
The Times SUNDAY has learnt that all the youth who attended the meetings were given an airtime incentive of E300 to enable them to continue deliberating on the issues that were discussed during the sessions through social media.
The Times SUNDAY has established that some of the young people from Dumako and surrounding areas have opted to boycott a training hosted by FLAS after there were forced to send back part of their airtime incentive to the cunning officer who was appointed by the Nzameya Royal Kraal to coordinate the programme.


The officer identified as Mzamo Ngcamphalala is alleged to have demanded over 50 per cent of the airtime given to the participants.
The Times SUNDAY has been told that the youth who partook in the training programme were compelled to send back about E180 of the received E300 airtime to Ngcamphalala. It is said the accused person allegedly called each one of the participants reminding them to send it to him.


The youth which constitutes mostly young girls could not conceal their frustration over the fact that a male, representing the kaNzameya Royal Kraal was demanding that they (attendees) send him airtime worth E180 after they had received their training incentive in the form of E300 airtime.
*Sihle who works in one of the local shops around Dumako told the Times SUNDAY that she was not interested in going back for training because when she received her incentive her trainer then demand that she send over 50 per cent of it back to him.

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