MP petitions police station

LOMAHASHA – The youth yesterday asked their MP in Ndumiso Masimula to deliver their petition to the Lomahasha Police Station. After the funeral service, the youth led by the MP, Makhanya and Mkhabela marched peacefully to the Lomahasha Police Station, where a petition was delivered by Masimula to the Station Commander Philip Tsabedze.

The youth will again this morning march to the police station to demand answers.

Meanwhile, the situation almost turned volatile as the MP was about to hand over the petition when the marchers started to pelt stones at the OSSU officers who stood near the gate.

However, the youth leaders calmed the situation.

The Lomahasha youth demands:

We demand that the national police commissioner officially withdraw his declaration of war against the people of Eswatini. We demand that the police arrest the people who killed protesters during the June/ July protests.

We demand to know how the alleged murderer of our brothers got the gun while he was allegedly very drunk.

We need evidence that the officer who allegedly butchered our brothers has been summarily dismissed from the police service.

We demand a Swaziland National Police Service not the Royal Eswatini Police Service.

We demand compensation for the two bereaved families.

Prince Simelane must be arrested for inciting violence in the country.

Police must make their oath to the Eswatini people first.

Police must protect the lives of the people first above property.

We demand better services from the police.

All officers who are known to have used service rifles to commit murder outside workplaces should be fired.

Police officers confiscated T- shirts from a member of the Swaziland Communist Party ( SCP) at KaMartin near Kalonhlupheko area.

About 20 police officers had manned a roadblock at this station, searching every vehicle coming from the Manzini direction to the Lomahasha Border Gate.

“I was told to give them all the T- shirts which were about 10. I told them that I am going to Lomahasha to attend a funeral,” said the member of the party.

This reporter managed to take pictures of the officer in possession of one of the T- shirts he had confiscated while making a phone call about the situation. The about eight members of the entity were aboard a Toyota Quantum.