FORMER MBABANE COUNCILLORS DEFEND GIDEON MHLONGO

MBABANE – Former councillors of the Municipal Council of Mbabane have defended out-of-favour CEO Gideon Mhlongo.

This is in relation to the ongoing controversy surrounding his contract.
According to the former councillors, it was the responsibility of the council to deal with the salary of the chief executive officer by virtue of having hired him in the first place.

This newspaper conducted interviews with some of the former councillors and though reluctant at first, they spoke seriously on the matter saying it had the potential of destroying the development of the town.

One of the former councillors was John Dlamini, who said it was disappointing that the current crop of councillors was too weak to deal with certain individuals who were on a campaign to get rid of the CEO.

“According to us, Mhlongo has not done anything wrong but there are people who are out there to serve their own personal interests and get rid of him. The town is like this because of his intelligence,” Dlamini said.

He said the current crop of councillors needed to be strong and not be influenced by outside forces that had ulterior motives.
Dlamini alleged that the current councillors were young people who were easily influenced and ended up not doing the right thing.

Another former councillor who was interviewed was Alfred Tsabedze, who said he was shocked that the whole issue had been blown out of proportion and now involved people it did not concern.

Tsabedze said he would not dwell much on the noise that was being caused by some of the ratepayers and said the main issue was the contract of the CEO.

“The issue is mainly on who was supposed to communicate first that the contract needed to be negotiated. Employer should react first when they see that the contract is about to come to an end. Yes, he also had to remind his employer but he is not forced,” said Tsabedze.
In his view, the involvement of some of the ratepayers was more personal as some of them had ulterior motives.

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