So Police Officers were Trained to rather Commit Suicide Instead of Liberating themselves from the Oppressor?

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So Police Officers were Trained to rather Commit Suicide Instead of Liberating themselves from the Oppressor?
So Police Officers were Trained to rather Commit Suicide Instead of Liberating themselves from the Oppressor?

By Zweli Martin Dlamini

Africa-Press – Eswatini. The ongoing suicide cases within the Royal Eswatini Police Service(REPS) suggest that, the minds of some members of the law enforcement agency were castrated, they rather be angry against themselves and commit suicide than liberating this country.

It’s surprising because, some of these police officers have done cruel things against independent journalists and other human rights defenders, they forced us to exile,arrested and tortured us but we are surviving in the wilderness without committing suicide despite the challenges we going through.

The question is; what makes them fail to properly manage their lives because no one is persecuting or hunting them?,unlike us, they wake-up everyday from the comfort of their homes or Police Camps and walk freely in the country.

It has been alleged that, some officers are facing financial challenges, we have been consistently advocating for better salaries for police officers but the challenge is;they always hunt and kill those who are their voice before committing suicide.

Police officers normally receive a salary increase or Cost of Living Adjustment(COLA) after trade union leaders conclude negotiations with Government but, in the process of demanding COLA that will benefit them as well,they normally shoot, arrest or kill protesters.

This means police officers even if we can try to demonstrate to them that we are actually advocating for a better life for them as well, they were trained to protect the oppressor such that, they would rather be angry against themselves and commit suicide, I regard this as the highest level of stupidity.

Apart from the low salaries, there are many systems that were established to grab money from the pockets of security officers including the police, money-lending companies like Select Management Services(SMS) have alleged links to King Mswati.

So in context, these officers receive salaries and then quee to secure loans from Select and other money-lending companies, the interests charged by these companies suggests that, we will have more financially broke police officers and other civil servants.

But we can’t do anything, if they decide to escort the oppressor, hunt and kill other civilians who are trying to liberate them before committing suicide, it means their minds were castrated during the police training.

We have seen security officers in other countries liberating their country, some police officers shot and killed civilians during the recent political unrest not knowing that, they were actually prolonging their misery and politically manufactured suffering.

This country must be democratized and the police officers have a role to play, in a new democratic dispensation, salaries will be reviewed and all systems forcing police officers and other civil servants into poverty, must be reviewed.

Police officers must know that, as long as they are protecting the Tinkhundla oppressive regime, they will remain poor and commit suicide.

This is a regime that strives through depriving citizens financial independence so that, they can be submissive to King Mswati and the cruel Tinkhundla system.

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