HOW DID POLICE, OTHERS MISS NKOMONYE’S BODY?

MANZINI – The mystery deepens on how the police and others who had combed the area where aspiring lawyer, Thabani Nkomonye is said to have been involved in an accident, missed his corpse.

A resident of Nhlambeni, *Mandla claimed that on Wednesday, he scouted the area where Nkomonye’s car was involved in an accident. He said he did not see any corpse despite that he went around the scene and picked up various scraps from the accident. Nkomonye’s body was discovered on Thursday afternoon, a few metres from the accident scene and main road. Mandla said picking up debris from accident scenes was part of his routine exercise of collecting scrap metal usually littered by motorists. He said on the Wednesday, he found debris of a motor vehicle depicting that there was an accident and among them were eyewear, which he left as it would not give him much money. The resident of Nhlambeni gave the interview under anonymity. Mandla claimed that while searching for the material which he could sell for a quick buck at a scrapyard, there was no stench or anything that depicted that there was a body lying around. “There was no foul smell and I did not see him in the thicket where his body was found a day later,” he said.

Suspect

However, he was quick to note that he was not looking for a body and did not suspect that there was one lying around. The distance between where the body of the deceased University of Eswatini (UNESWA) Law student and where the vehicle supposedly landed after it veered off the Mhlaleni–Nhlangano Road is about 25 metres apart. Mandla said when he moved about the thicket, which was about 15 metres from the main road, he did not see anything that would have made him suspect that there was a body lying around. He said shock engulfed him when a day later, news made the rounds that a body had been found where he had walked by, looking for scrap material. In fact, the resident had more questions than answers as he wondered why he had not seen a trail of blood from where the vehicle was found to where Nkomonye’s body was eventually discovered last Thursday.

Nkomonye was last seen last Saturday while at Ngwane Park and his body was discovered by the police on the fifth day of his disappearance. Worth noting is that despite his body being found five days later, the sedan he was driving, a Mazda Demio, was discovered and towed by the police on the Saturday night he was last seen. Despite that a week has lapsed since the vehicle was towed from the accident scene; skid marks were still visible when reporters from the publication visited. Also found were debris of the motor vehicle which were supposedly dismantled upon impact as the vehicle is said to have overturned before landing in the thicket.

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