‘I’LL SPEAK UNTIL I LEAVE’

MBABANE – Despite being one politician who has on countless occasions questioned reckless decisions by government, MP Marwick Khumalo was on Monday asked why he was silent in Parliament.

This took place during an engagement on Twitter Space, where participants asked why he and his colleagues were silent. “Why are you silent in Parliament when there are people incarcerated? These are the MPs who hold the same position that you hold. You haven’t said anything about it. As a seasoned and experienced politician, I want to know if Sibahle Sinje has decided that it doesn’t want to involve itself in the issue of the MPs?” asked one of the participants. In his usual calm self, the MP expressed that he liked the submission despite that it might have come from an uninformed opinion. He mentioned that since he joined politics, he had ‘never had a talent of being silent’.

Proximity

“I think because of proximity, you might be uninformed about what transpires in our Parliament. Just to help you understand, after this incident, or before it, you will remember at some point I was out of the country when my colleagues were called sellouts. When I came back I am the one who spoke out on it and submitted that as MPs we had not come to represent a party so there was no way any one of us could be labelled sellouts,” he said. He said he questioned why government was allegedly killing civilians for exercising their right and wondered if such meant being silent. Khumalo said he was never elected to be a church mouse as he believed that Parliament was not a synagogue. “I will speak until I leave. Maybe, do not expect me to say what someone else has said as I do not want to sound boring. But I have no problem if I am asked whether I support what someone else has submitted. That is when you will get my side,” he said.

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