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She recalled that pictures of members of the UEDF were posted and “untruthfully associated with serious accusations, among others, of shooting incidents, while they were not part of such an operation.”
Dangers
She said Dlamini had since been exposed to dangers by the perpetrators, yet he was not in Mbabane on the said day. “He is currently with the training battalion, and on the day, as usual, he carried on with his duties and there was really no way he could be deployed to the Mbabane operation,” she said.
Dlamini in an interview also said he was not in Mbabane on Tuesday.
He said before the Facebook post he received a phone call from a nurse who is a relative, telling him that a certain female patient spoke unsavoury statements against him.
He said when the patient was described, it downed to him that such a one could have been his ex-girlfriend. “I am not saying she is the one responsible for the Facebook post, but there is a strange coincidence here,” he said. him.
Dlamini said he feared for his family now that such an untrue statement was said about
MANZINI - Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force (UEDF) Public Affairs Officer 2nd Leutenant Tengetile Khumalo, has warned against the abuse of army uniform.
She said it was a great concern to the UEDF that some people were using the gazetted army uniform to masquerade as soldiers and perpetrate crimes.
“Recently, as reported by one of the local newspapers Times of Eswatini, certain suspects were nabbed by one law enforcement agency in possession of the stolen army camouflage uniform, which is suspected to have been abused for illicit practices,” she said.
Condemned
Khumalo said the UEDF condemned such acts, and warned that the law would take its course on perpetrators.
Khumalo said investigations were ongoing to determine how the uniform landed in the wrong hands.
On the same wavelength, the Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) condemned acts of tarnishing the services image on social media.