COPS NOT TO BLAME FOR LEAKED INFO - PM

MBABANE - Police officers are not to blame for the leaking of vital information but it is the efficiency of the media that is working wonders!

This strong revelation was made by the Prime Minister, Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini, during the Senate portfolio committee debate of his office yesterday.
The PM was responding to a concern from senators regarding how crucial information related to investigation of crime cases was leaked even before the police concluded their work.

The argument by senators, as was the case with MPs early this month, was that the rate at which information was leaked, especially on social media, was becoming a serious concern.
According to the PM, the leaking of information was a problem in countries all over the world but that the blame should not entirely be shifted to the police involved in the investigation.
Instead, the PM said the media had sharpened its skills to a point where it landed on sensitive information in a way that was at times unbelievable.

“I-media seyikhaliphe kakhulu ngakoke i-information itawuphuma vele,” the PM said in vernacular which means, “The media has sharpened its skills when it comes to sourcing information.”
He also explained that there was nothing much that could be done to change how information travelled in the different social media platforms but acknowledged that there was a need to manage it.
The PM was responding to a question that was posed by Senate Deputy President, Ngomuyayona Gamedze who demanded to know what strategy was in place to deal with how information circulated on social media.
Gamedze said the issue was a concern as it had the potential of making people shy away from assisting the police with information.

Dlamini made it clear that social media was meant for the exchange of information and said even though there was a growing concern in different countries about how it was at times abused, there was little that could be done.
Even though they did not name any case, it is a known fact that legislators and the public at large had raised displeasure following the leaking of vital information to the public particularly on the murder of businessman and football administrator Victor Gamedze.

There has also been a concern after it was reported that there was a police officer who had leaked the information and tipped suspects that the police were about to pounce on them.
On another note, Senators asked to know if there was a strategic plan that guided legislators in the course of their duties outside Parliamentary sittings.

The argument by the Senators was that most of them attended conferences and workshops where they slept in hotels but there were no reports that were submitted.

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