STUDENTS ENGAGE ‘SILENT’ MPS ON THABANI’S DEATH STANCE

MANZINI – Those partaking in the #JusticeForThabani movement have taken advantage of social media to engage their Members of Parliament (MPs) on their silence about the issue.

On Sunday, some of the protesters were said to have created a WhatsApp group wherein they added some legislators. They engaged the MPs individually and sought their stance on their quest for #JusticeForThabani.
The protesters also contacted some of the politicians through phone calls where they sought their input in the call for the said justice. Worth noting is that government has appointed a coroner to lead the inquest of what befell deceased University of Eswatini (UNESWA) Law student – Thabani Nkomonye. What set tongues wagging was the fact that after the deceased was reported missing, the police could not disclose that the vehicle Nkomonye was driving was within their premises from the day of the accident.

Engaged

Furthermore, when towing the vehicle, the police could not locate the body of the deceased until six days later. Subsequent to this, students through their union – Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS) – engaged in a protest march which ended in pandemonium. They were later supported by three legislators in their fight for ‘justice’ against the purported police brutality. These legislators are: Siphofaneni Constituency MP Mduduzi ‘Gawuzela’ Simelane, Ngwempisi Constituency MP Mthandeni Dube and Hosea Constituency MP Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza. Seeing that other elected MPs were not publicly engaging on this issue, the protesters set up the group wherein they engaged them on the topic. The people behind the group were questioning the silence of the legislators, while also seeking answers on what they were doing in dealing with some of the challenges experienced by the electorate – who sent them to Parliament to voice out their concerns.

This, it is said, was one of the many means employed by the electorate to raise their concerns over alleged police brutality. In some of the responses by the said legislators they noted that they were waiting for the right platform to engage on the issue, while others relayed that it would be proper to engage on the merits of the purported police brutality once the inquest was completed. In an interview with some of the MPs, they acknowledged to have received messages and calls from the students from Sunday night and continued to get them even yesterday.

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