Junior cops, senior officers smoke
M– Secretary General (SG) of the Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS), Staff Association, Sergeant Dumisile Khumalo has said that she will never go into exile.
Khumalo was responding to some comments on the social media platforms where it was insinuated that she had escaped and went AWOL (absent without official leave) after she was not visible yesterday during the planned march to the Ministry of Public Service and the Prime Minister to demand answers after they delivered a petition last week.
The same concern was raised about the president of the Royal Eswatini
Police Services Staff Association (REPOSSA)’s Sergeant Kayiri Lukhele who also like Khumalo, was not present on Tuesday.
Both Khumalo and Lukhele pointed out that the fact that the court order was served to them with the president, made it difficult for them to attend the march.
“Technically, we would have been arrested for defying the court individually,” said Sergeant Khumalo on Thursday.
Khumalo explained that she is not in exile and stated that also
Secretary General of the Royal Eswatini Police Service, Staff Association, Sergeant Dumisile Khumalo.
it was difficult for the both of them to attend the march as they were both served with the court order stopping the planned march on behalf of junior officers in the police service and His Majesty’s Correctional Services (HMCS).
No reasoN
To drive the message home, Khumalo even went to address the matter on her Facebook page and stated specifically that she had no reason to escape not knowing what was chasing her.
“Emanga enu batsi nitsi sengibalekile nine ngayaphi nje ngabalekiswa yin, angikwati kubaleka ngingati nekutsi ngicoshwa yin, angikanikwa moya webugwala mine I face my goliath nd I will win infact Ive won before starting the fight (sic),” she said in vernacular which in translation the statement reads: “Your lies, they are saying that you said that I have escaped, what can make me escape, I cannot escape not knowing what is chasing me, I have not been given the cowardice spirit, I face my goliath and I will win in fact I’ve won before starting the fight,” Khumalo posted on her FB account.
On the other hand, Lukhele said that during the march he was at the Ministry of Public Service to try and engage him further on the matter of the owed phase II to junior officers.
Crack
National Commissioner of Police, Tsitsibala Dlamini and Commissioner General, Phindile Lomakhosini Dlamini, pulled all strings to ensure that they had a court order by the crack of dawn last Tuesday.
The court order was the one that was used to block the officers from continuing with their scheduled march to the Cabinet offices.
In motivating the application, the duo informed the court that the intended march by members of the respondents (HMCS and REPS) staff associations compromised national security and if it continued unabated, it would put lives of emaSwati at risk.
It was further contended that the respondents were members of the country’s security forces and they fell under essential services category.
“The matter is urgent because the lives of emaSwati are in danger should the march be permitted as planned,” the duo pleaded to the court.
This is a screenshot from her Facebook page where she warns those who had said she is in exile.
M– Over 30 cops left the High Court and headed straight to Mbabane Old Police Station post to iron out some issues pertaining the arrest warrant of their Secretary General, Sergeant Dumisile Khumalo.
Senior Superintendent Clement Sihlongonyane had failed to effect a warrant of arrest yesterday
Technically, we would have been arrested for defying the court individually,’’ said Sergeant Khumalo
at the entrance of Parliament.
The officers arrived at the station and were able to meet and iron out the issues with Sihlongonyane and according to the president of REPOSSA, Sergeant Kayiri Lukhele, Sihlongonyane promised not to effect the arrest warrant.
“We had requested that they,