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PM UYAKHOBOSEKA AT CABINET - MP

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LOBAMBA – The Prime Minister, Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, must take up his rightful position in Cabinet.


Manzini South Member of Parliament Thandi Nxumalo said in her opinion, the PM was clearly being belittled. In vernacular, MP Nxumalo said the PM ‘uyakhoboseka’.


Nxumalo wondered what was happening in Cabinet, adding that it was clear that someone else (goloza) was calling the shots at the Hospital Hill and it was a sad situation. She said they did not know who the person playing PM was and perhaps that individual had hoped that he or she would be appointed into the position of the PM.


Submissions


She said the premier was being used, which was why the decision to allow 70 people in churches was allowed. Nxumalo said as MPs, they were there to stay until their term ended and that the next Parliament would also be in place to play their oversight role on the Executive. She said the PM was being used and whoever was doing it was a coward. 


She made these submissions on Wednesday in Parliament during a debate which resulted in the reversal of government’s decision to have 70 people attending a church service instead of the gazetted 20.   Meanwhile, Lobamba Lomdzala MP Marwick Khumalo submitted that he did not know what was dividing the MPs and Cabinet. He said being a Cabinet minister did not make ministers better than backbenchers.


“What is the reason that we do not come together and discuss this serious situation in the country?” asked Khumalo. He said Parliament represented the people’s interests. He said at the moment, the multi-party system was considered better by others because for example in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa called all the other opposition parties such as the EFF led by Julius Malema, and addressed the nation.  “However, we are failing to do this because some consider themselves to be more clever than the backbenchers, what a grave mistake to make,” said Khumalo. 


He said brains were not the ones which got people to Cabinet and ministers needed to respect the MPs because they had been elected by the people. Khumalo said the conduct of the DPM, Themba Masuku, in this country was totally out of order.
“He thinks us MPs should not be taken seriously but himself, as the one who gets everything going,” he said.


He said there was a statement on social media and newspapers castigating MPs and it is alleged that the statement was from the NDMA.  He said the NDMA did not have the capacity to take on MPs, and said they were merely government officials. “Someone is hiding behind that and using the NDMA as a launching pad to attack parliamentarians, that can only be the work of a coward who is fearful of facing parliamentarians,” said Khumalo.


Organisations


He said they feared no man and therefore they should address each other in Parliament and not shoot from the dark. He alleged that Cabinet ministers were not aware of most of the things that happened in Cabinet.


MP Khumalo said the DPM couldn’t be putting himself on billboards as he knew how the country operated. He said there was one former PM who wanted to stop appearing on Eswatini TV because he had been admonished for appearing too much. He said people were lucky because of the COVID-19 pandemic otherwise others would have already been summoned.


He said the DPM could not be running the show alone. “The DPM has a problem that he does not like MPs, he has a personal problem with elected MPs,” he said.  He accused Masuku of even not using the tinkhundla system, which had MPs but engaged his non-governmental organisations.                        

      
  
   




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