WE NEED ANSWERS!

It gets worse by the day.

Yesterday we woke up to revelations that some government vehicles have been found to be registered in the name of a government employee. These are no ordinary cars but the controversial luxury BMWs bought for the ministers serving in the Barnabas Dlamini-led Cabinet. The employee denies playing any part in this anomaly, except to have served as a messenger in filing the documents for their registration. Strangely, some were correctly registered as State property while others ‘belong’ to him. We dare ask how many government cars are registered in the name of the ‘messenger’? This warrants a full blown investigation to determine the extent of this practice and to call upon the Central Transport Administration (CTA) to account for all government vehicles. Such a probe is all the more necessary when considering a past incident where a government-purchased truck was found in the hands of a private construction company.

Not to mention a govt car that was found to be registered in  the name of an influential citizen. We have also had a case of a car parts syndicate that was busted servicing public transport owners. We are yet to be convinced that government fuel theft has been addressed given the failure of the previous government to curb government vehicle abuse. The latest revelation presents Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini with bulging paperwork for the anti-corruption crusade and we expect no less than the vigor with which the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has adopted in using the Prevention of Organised Crime Act of 2018 (POCA), to confiscate property from those suspected to have acquired it through ill-gotten means.

It is becoming more apparent each day that some executive decisions taken by the previous Cabinet were detrimental to the economy and these decisions need to be reviewed for purposes of prosecution. Gifting the ministers these BMWs is one of them. These ministers wrecked an economy but continued to entitle themselves to State property worth almost half a million Emalangeni without paying a cent for it. This can’t be right! Neither is considering any of the former Cabinet ministers to serve in public office given the shambolic state in which they left our economy.   

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