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HOSEA – Deputy Prime Minister Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku has questioned what the people of Hosea, in particular those who cut down electricity poles, were smoking.

He also sternly criticised those who had accosted officials from the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) during a civic voter education exercise recently.

Masuku wondered what these people had smoked to commit such acts.

“Angilati lelive leHosea kutsi libhemeni. Uva sekujutjwe emapali abogesi. Ngulobhemile longenta njalo. Ngeke usukele bantfu bahleti bafake boramthuthu babo emafrijini usahe tigodvo letetfwele gesi. Njani?”

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This is translated to mean: “I don’t know what the people of Hosea smoke really. Only one who has smoked can go around cutting down electricity poles.”

This was during a tree planting campaign at Silele Clinic under Hosea Constituency yesterday. This campaign is in commemoration of the International Day of Forests, which is observed annually on March 21, to create awareness about the importance of preserving them.

According to the DPM, the act of cutting down electricity poles was setting back the development as the money which was supposed to be used to construct roads had to be diverted to replace the poles. He stated that they received a report that there were people who disturbed the EBC officials when they had come to conduct a civic voter education exercise at Kaliba.

“When you follow up why they did that, you find that their reasons were not at all related to the activity,” he said.

According to the DPM, elections were enshrined in the Constitution that was endorsed by the people and no one was going to stop the process, as long as the Constitution was in existence.

He said the opposition against elections needed to come to an end as everyone had a right to vote, compared to being forced to follow something they did not want. Masuku also criticised the act of burning structures, given that the pupils were destroying their future. He said he wanted to visit Hosea, which was agitated the most, as he also wanted to check the results.

He further touched on the incident that happened at Hosea, when police were called to intervene as a resident engaged in a fight with a police officer. He