Africa-Press – Eswatini. Former Mbabane East legislator Esther Dlamini is not on the list of nominees for the Member of Parliament (MP) position at Mbabane East.
The former two-time Mbabane East MP did not make the list of MP hopefuls at Msunduza, where she was nominated. This was discovered on the list with pictures that was published by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) and mounted at the Municipal Council of Mbabane premises, yesterday. However, the reasons for her omission from the list could not be determined yesterday as her phone rang unanswered.
Compete
She was nominated at Msunduza, where she was supposed to compete with 10 others, who are David Dlamini, Sanele Dlamini, Phetsile Jackson, Vusi Sibisi, Welcome Dlamini, Nqobile Mavuso, Themba Makhanya, Jabulane Nxumalo, Sandile Vilakati and Paul Dlamini, who all made the list. Following the nomination of aspiring candidates for the position of MP, indvuna yenkhundla and bucopho, the commission engaged in a vetting process, which seeks to establish the status of their compliance with the tax laws of the country. The vetting also seeks to establish whether the nominees have pending criminal records, or were convicted and sentenced to more than six months imprisonment. Section 13 (1) (c) of the Elections Act also provides that a person shall spend five years (60 months) after completing his/her sentence, if convicted of offences falling under the fourth and fifth schedule.
EBC Communications Officer Mbonisi Bhembe shared that they had completed the vetting process and would be mounting faces of the persons who made it past the process. He shared that 27 aspiring MPs and tindvuna tetinkhundla did not make the list as they did not tick all the boxes against the different variations they were checked on in the vetting process and this meant that the aspirants were not declared duly nominated, as depicted in Section 31 of the Elections Act, 2013.
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