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Give rotten food to public - Mtsambama MP

06/06/2013 01:31:00 BY NONTOBEKO TSHABALALA

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LOBAMBA – Mtsambama Member of Parliament (MP) Mlamuli Dlamini yesterday stunned his colleagues when he suggested that the rotten food should be distributed to the public.

This was during the debate preceding the adoption of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Portfolio Committee on inspection of rotten food at the Matsapha Central Government Warehouse. The report was successfully adopted.

While MPs expressed their sadness over the situation, Dlamini said the food should still be given to the people.
“The people are starving. I would suggest that we give them the food in the warehouse batsi lelambile iyaludla ludzaka. There are people in the kingdom who eat cow dung in order to take their pills, it is better for them to eat rotten beans than the dung,” he said to the murmurs of his colleagues in the august House.

Lobamba Lomdzala MP Marwick Khumalo vehemently dissociated himself from the other MP’s suggestion stating that he did not believe that the public deserved rotten food.
“I do not want to associate with that, I don’t think that any sector of our population deserves rotten food. The inefficiency of an ineffective government should not be at the expense of the people, they should not suffer because of it,” Khumalo said.

He went on to state that some Cabinet ministers lacked empathy as was evident in the way they handled issues. He said unless someone had been elected by the people into Parliament it would be impossible for them to understand the pressures of the people.
Acting Committee Chairperson Mbabane West MP Johane Shongwe said the situation proved that there were negligent people in the country who were simply careless to be vigilant.

He wondered how the Deputy Prime Minister, Themba Masuku, had allowed the food to rot.
Also expressing his dismay at the situation was Hlane MP Mduduzi Magagula who said when he had gone to the warehouse he was met by huge rats that he believed lived better than most Swazis.

They called for the situation to be immediately addressed and for one of the recommendations in the report to be immediately adhered to. The recommendation stated that the food at the warehouse be dispatched and distributed to the people in the various Tinkhundla centres.
Shongwe said there was no way that rotten food would be given to the people of Mtsambama

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Comments (15 posted):

UMTUKULU WAHLABAZONKE on 06/06/2013 06:44:46

That bad how can people be given rotten food ayaphila kahle lamaMPs lancoma loko? They are taking the nation for granted and they are useless lokudla bebatsi vele nakufika kutsengelweni futsi kuniketwe bobani ngoba phela sitsi sibatfumile sisive kutsi basimelelele instead they were focusing on their circular no1 because it will help them feed their families better and boost their for campaigning and that's why they started campaigning sikhatsi singakafiki. I'm worried if they will be elected again coz they are poor minded and they will destroy our country for the next five years. Phela kudla akucali kubola futsi the whole useless cabinet knows there truth but now they are frustrated with elections so that's why they trying to blame those ministers today but for the five years they were silence. Ngabe nje labo labatsi lokudla lokubolile akunikwe sive ekubeni bona badla lokungakaboni basitsatsanjani kantsi lesive! I hop every Swazi is accounted for this poor MPs, futsi kuyasho lokutsi they bought those votes with rotten food.

BHASHÍTHAMBO on 06/06/2013 09:35:40

If only we had a caring government...

binda on 06/06/2013 10:05:07

somehow he has a point, kunekutsi balambe abamane bancengancenge. zange sabulale muntfu emabhontjisi lasamadzala sikhulevele swakhetsa lokungenani nawtawgcina ufake something esiswini

Sbusiso on 06/06/2013 10:32:34

That would be suicide and its not an issue to be debated. You are off side Mp

concerned swazi on 06/06/2013 10:42:10

hawu!how can he say that we the public should be given rotten?kwayena ngeke asakudle,usho kutsi lesive semaswati sitingulube?lona akawati umsebenti wakhe akaye ekhaya.he's such a disgrace

SWAZI on 06/06/2013 10:52:46

democracy is better than this WE want people like JAN SITHOLE MARWICK KHUMALO AS PRIME MINISTER OF SWZILAND LOOK AT THIS MEMBER OF P SAYING WROOTTEN FOOD MUST BE GIVEN TO THE NATION FOR WHAT FOR THE PEOPLE TO BECOME SICK WHERE IS THE MINISTER OF HEALTH DOES HE CARE OF THAT WORDS FROM THIS MEMBER OF PARLAMENT I THINK HE WILL NOT GO BACK TO THE PL NEXT YEAR HE HAS NO HEART TO EVEN SPEAKING LIKE THAT IT WAS BETTER FOR HIM TO KEEP QUIET IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY KEPT THIS FOOD FOR LONG TIME FOR TO MISLEAD THE HUNGRY PEOPLE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY DURING THIS ELECTIONS NO ONE OF THEM MUST BE ELECTED WHEN THIS MP SUGESTED THAT THE SPOILED FOOD MUST BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE NATION THE OTHERS WERE SUPPORSE TO GIVE HIM CLAB ON THE FACE AND KEEPING HIS MOUHT SHUT INSTEAD THEY MADE MUMULATION FOR WHAT HE SPOKE LIKE THAT BECAUSE HE THINK THAT HE IS GOING TO BE ELECTED AGAIN SHAME ON HIM

muzi on 06/06/2013 12:08:19

Its a shame to the people of mtsambama,how can one bodly stand n say rotten food must be given to the needy,these mtsambama mp don't know what to say nguye lolohlanhlatsekako,the prime minister saw it coming,I even hate my constituance(mtsambama)for all the wrong things our mp has done and said.

Kulie on 06/06/2013 12:13:54

This so unalled for..."lelambile iyaludla ludzaka", the fact that we are fortunate mean not we should be fed with rotten food. we are citizens, we vote for people to be in charge in Parly, and the same people thank us with this? are we really pigs? thanx Mr Cabinet.

Maseko Ntobeko on 06/06/2013 13:46:17

I THINK THE MTSAMBAMA MP WAS OUT OF HIS SENSES WHEN SAYING THAT THE ROTTEN FOOD MUST BE GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE. HE WAS TOTALLY WRONG, AND UMA UHULUMENDE ABAKHATHALELA ABANTU BAKHE, LOBABA LO KUMELE AXOLISE NGALESI SENTO. COMING BACK TO THE FACT THAT KUZEKUBE NOKUDLA OKUBOLAYO NJE ABANTU BALAMBILE BEKWENZENJANI. THIS SIMPLE MEAN THAT THERE IS MIS-MANAGEMENT SOMEWHERE. SO SOMEONE MUST GIVE US A CLEAR EXPLANATION.FAILING TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THAT,THE PM AND HIS MPS MUST BUY THAT FOOD AND GIVE THEM TO THE PEOPLE KUNGAKABOLI. I THANK YOU

anon on 06/06/2013 14:55:22

Give who the rotten food? Is this a farm where rotten food is given to those animals who are less equal to the others? Its not even food that was paid for but was donated. Why was the food left to rot in the first place? This is why we need democracy. In South Africa, it is the people who own the country. They have the power to remove incompetent leaders. In Swaziland, all we can do is watch while the owners of the country do as they please.