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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Chief Ndlovula,the traditional leader of Ekupheleni has confirmed that armed thugs invaded his Chiefdom and grabbed cattle from residents.<\/b><\/p>\n

On Friday, the Chief said he was concerned about the situation as residents were being robbed of their wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are facing a serious challenge of cattle theft here, it\u2019s true that recently armed men invaded homes, grabbed cattle and crossed to South Africa. Please assist us and raise an alarm, we don\u2019t know what to do now. Tsine sati kutsi tinkhomo libhange lemaSwati manje uma libhange seligcekezwa kalula kanje, asisati kumele sente njani, noma kuhlupha lokutsi sisemnceleni,\u201dsaid the Chief.<\/p>\n

A questionnaire was sent to Superintendent Phindile Vilakati, the Police Spokesperson, however, she had not responded at the time of compiling this report.<\/p>\n

Sithembile Dlamini, a resident of Ekupheleni appealed for help after armed thugs invaded homes on Tuesday and grabbed over fifty(50) cattle worth R 1 million.<\/p>\n

Dlamini said they reported the matter to the police but the law enforcement agency was reluctant to assist them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe armed thugs took ten(10) of my cattle worth R200,000.00.They went on to invade other homes that include ka-Gama, kaNgcamphalala,kaMthunzi, ka-Fakudze, kaBabe Makhinane Dlamini eMagomini.Batsetse tinkhomo leti-worth R1million, mine batsetse tami leti-worth R200,000.00, kaMakhelwane batsetse fifteen(15) ema-Blamani, tinkhomo tetfu,\u201d said the resident.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Eswatini. Chief Ndlovula,the traditional leader of Ekupheleni has confirmed that armed thugs invaded his Chiefdom and grabbed cattle from residents. 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