MEDIA CHUCKED OUT AFTER ‘MOI MOI’ CRITICS BILL

LOBAMBA – Minister of Tinkhundla Administration and Development, David ‘Cruiser’ Ngcamphalala chucked out journalists from the country’s media houses after Senator Vuka ‘Moi Moi’ Masilela’s criticism of a Bill yesterday in parliament.

This was during the ministry’s consultative meeting exercise with senators on the Decentralisation Bill where Senator Masilela punched holes on the whole exercise which he said it didn’t represent accurately the views of His Majesty King Mswati III. The feeling among senators was that the ministry shouldn’t rush but take time and do thorough consultations before actually moving for its adoption. “Minister, you and your ministry should take every submission that is made here at the senate and to the attorney general and engage his office and come back to this house because we cannot afford to make the same mistake of passing out laws which will cause more cracks and divisions in the country of Eswatini,” pointed out Senator Prince Hlangabeza who was chairing the consultative exercise.

Director of Decentralisation, Dumisani Sithole was there to guide the senators through.   On another note, Senator Mkhululi ‘Dubula’ Dlamini told senators that the new Bill was not addressing the issues of service delivery. During the consultative exercise, the senator pointed out that the minister was only addressing matters of inductions. “There had been a lot of complaints before that the Tinkhundla system of government was at zero when it comes to issues of service delivery and we must make it a point that before this Bill is passed, those matters should be addressed,” clarified Senator Dlamini.

Furthermore, the senator went on to implore his colleagues for having understood the purpose of the late King Sobhuza II of introducing the Tinkhundla system of Governance. “We should not destroy the essence of the Tinkhundla system of government because when the issue of service delivery is addressed, the country can be fixed,” clarified Senator Dlamini when making observations during the consultative exercise.
Decentralisation is a process that has been commissioned by the Head of State and entrenched in the country’s constitution as the basis of the country’s system of government.

According to section 218 (2); The main objective of the Tinkhundla System of Government is to bring government  closer to the people so that the people at sub-national or local community level progressively take control of their own affairs and govern themselves.Based on the principle of subsidiarity, decentralisation allows central government to have a subsidiary function while allowing services and functions that can best be delivered at local level to be perfomed at those lower levels. Most importantly, decentralisation is a global agenda which has been effectively used as a political power sharing and people empowerment tool to enhance the participation of all the people in a country in both political and socio-economic development processes and activities.

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