ADDRESS SCU ISSUES BY WEDNESDAY OR ELSE... - MPS

LOBAMBA - It’s now or never! This is the clear message sent by Members of Parliament to the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Finance, which they have been until Wednesday to address issues relating to the Swaziland Christian University (SCU).

This transpired during the adoption of portfolio committee reports in Parliament yesterday.

The ultimatum gives the abovementioned stakeholders two working days to attend to the matter.
Mbabane West MP Johane Shongwe, who has been vocal about the issues relating to the institution, wondered why the university was opened without the issues that would see it operating at optimum level like other institutions of higher learning first being addressed. 

 
Again Shongwe questioned as to what Cabinet was doing because there was a directive from the highest authority, which instructed that the institution should be opened and its issues attended to.
“Ngifisa sengatsi laba labambambelela SCU bangahamba bangabuyi (I wish that those delaying progress in the university can go and not return),” the MP said.

On another note, he suggested that they should put on hold the entire budget allocated to the other institutions of higher learning in the country until the Swaziland Christian University issue was addressed.

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The MP was backed by Zombodze Emuva MP, Titus Thwala, who said by the look of things, SCU students were treated as half students as the budget allocated to the institution was the lowest compared to the others.

On the same note, Nkwene MP Sikhumbuzo Dlamini, who is part of the Ministry of Education Portfolio Committee and select committee was elected to address the matter, warned the MPs against being in bed with the defiant Cabinet, which was refusing to follow the orders from the highest authority. He suggested that they should cut the budget allocated to all the other institutions of higher learning to cater for Swaziland Christian University and thereafter put the budgets on hold.

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