By Wandile Dludlu.
Africa-Press – Eswatini. This past week, we witnessed three days of explosive revelations in the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner.
In essence, he has so far exposed how criminal syndicates manipulate and control everything, from ordinary cops to top Generals, Ministers and Presidents.
It been a fiasco underneath the sun type of situationship so says the current “2000 generation of young people”.
But when called upon to explain why he broke protocol and went out of the normal line of communication on the 6th of August when holding a media briefing in which he exposed the rot which prompted the Head of State to set up the very Commission seating and hearing submissions and many more to come, General Mkhwanazi’s response is the essence of this piece today.
The Lieutenant General answered by saying; “after experience of noticing interference, illegality and brazen thuggery rulling the day between some police, politicians and journalists, I said the people who employed us must know the truth, this being the citizens of South Africa”.
In Eswatini, one has come across this question many times, wherein police say;
“I made an Oath of Office that I will be loyal to the Head of State and his Government period.I will do whatever I’m ordered to do”.
This approach, I would suggest, is naive and dangerous to the Nation, citizens and the very police themselves.
Evidence has surfaced, off course yet to be tested, that not just senior police officers, Ministers but literally two(2) Presidents are fingered in protecting criminals and manipulating police operations, a sphere not within their scope of work.
This must hopefully serve as a lesson to the police, warders and soldiers that, their naive theory of being loyal to politicians than justice and particularly the citizens, is certainly going to one day, live them naked and vulnerable like the cops who killed Steve Biko forty-eight(48) years ago 12 September 1977.
Those cops have been hauled before a Commission of Enquiry to answer and explain the circumstances leading to Biko’s brutal death, the politicians of that day have either long died, retired enjoying immunity to prosecution not you.
It is therefore important to advise security officers that, they must never allow poor the leadership of King Mswati and his criminal syndicate-Cabinet to abuse their services as police officers.
Lieutenant General Mkhwanazi has proven that loyalty of police, soldiers, warders and civil servants should be to the citizens and the Nation, the real clients and owners of the power they are exercising not politicians of the day.
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