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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Senator Chief Mphatfwa has shared words of advice to the electorate that they should not nominate criminals and arsonists in the upcoming national elections.<\/b><\/p>\n

The legislator was supported by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Pholile Shakantu, who also advised the electorate to practise caution when nominating candidates to stand for elections because they did not want to nominate individuals who had a certain political agenda.This was during the ministry\u2019s portfolio committee annual performance report presentation to Senate at the House of Assembly Chamber yesterday.<\/p>\n

Supporting his submission, Senator Chief Mphatfwa suggested to the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) that they should consider beginning their vetting process at the umphakatsi level, before the process is handed over to the police. His point of view was that they could help EBC in eliminating the people not eligible to stand for elections because chiefs, as overseers of the communities, knew the people, their characters and capabilities. He shared that with the information they had on each and every resident\u2019s characters and capabilities, they sometimes warned residents about certain individuals, advising them not to travel at night because they would be in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

Engaged<\/p>\n

The legislator even made an example that they recently engaged Minister of Tinkhundla Administration and Development David \u2018Cruiser\u2019 Ngcamphalala to enquire if there were any suspects, who had been apprehended in connection with the burning of the tinkhundla centres at the height of the political unrest in 2021. The minister responded to the negative. The chief said it was astonishing that no one had been apprehended because the culprits were known residents that the chiefs and other community leaders could identify. \u201cThis is not to say we have solid evidence that they did commit these offences but we know people who visited the tinkhundla centres only for them to be reduced to ashes the following morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The legislator, who is the chairman of the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Portfolio Committee, said the electorate should make the right choices when coming to the nominations of individuals and avoid choosing known criminals, who would serve their political interests, not that of the people they would be representing. This is in respect of bucopho, indvuna yenkhundla and Member of Parliament. \u201cEBC should rope us in as leaders of the communities to assist them in the vetting process. \u201cWe can help a great deal in identifying individuals who are not eligible to stand for elections due to their untoward behaviour and conduct in the communities. \u201cThese are people we live with and we know their conduct and behaviour and what they are capable of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Identify<\/p>\n

Minister Shakantu said the beauty of the country\u2019s political system was that people knew each other through engagements in communities and Tinkhundla, hence it was easy to identify people whose intentions were not those that served the interest of the community or country. \u201cA person should be nominated through individual merit and it should be someone who is fond of the system, has integrity, humble and working friendly with the people. How can you nominate someone who is a known criminal? \u201cIf you nominate someone who burnt a school for example, is that what you want the children of the community to consider as the right thing to do?\u201d she wondered.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the minister said there were electoral laws that the ministry was working on and amending to address some of the concerns of the senators. This was after Chief Mphatfwa had submitted that there were people who cast votes at communities where they were not from. He made an example that there was a tendency from people residing from Matsapha to get into buses in numbers and go to a specific area to vote in communities where they were not known.The minister said one of the legislation would look into extending the allowed three months stay in an area for one to be eligible to vote, and extend it to at least five months, to curb what the chief complained about and stated that she would table the amended legislation in Parliament at least in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

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