POLICE HUNT INDIVIDUALS THREATENING OFFICER

MANZINI - The police have launched a full scale investigation to find those who are behind threatening a police officer on allegations that he was the one behind the shooting of marchers.

Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati said they had noted with serious concern the threats against one of their officers which were circulating on social media platforms.

The police mouthpiece said they were after these people because the allegations that he was the one behind the shooting of marchers were offensive, especially because the officer in question was not part of the operation which was in Manzini on Wednesday.
“We are all out to get those who are behind the threats and circulating them on social media. We will find them and they will face the wrath of the law,” Vilakati said.

Danger

She said the circulating threats were putting the life of their innocent officer in danger not only in the country, but also outside the borders of Eswatini. She said people who would see him would perceive that he had shot marchers yet he was not there when the incident took place.
“I repeat, he was not part of the operation,” the police mouthpiece emphasised.

Some of the threats that circulated on social media have a picture of the officer, his place of residence and department which he works under in the police service. Some of his pictures had been put together with the images of the workers who were injured during the march on Wednesday.
One of the posts on social media reads; ‘Wanted dead or alive’!

In fact, the police mouthpiece said as law enforcers, they were against spreading of false information, including irrelevant pictures in such incidents; protests and marches to be specific.

The civil servants’ strike action has since been stopped by the court. The civil servants, who are organised under SNAT, NAPSAWU and Swaziland National Association of Government Accounting Personnel (SNAGAP), were on strike over the cost-of-living adjustment (CoLA) for 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years, after government offered them zero per cent.

The unions started by demanding 9.15 per cent for 2017/18 but lowered it to 7.85 per cent and further slashed it to five per cent while government continuously offered them zero per cent. For the 2019/20 financial year, they first demanded 6.55 per cent but later slashed it to 4.5 per cent while the employer continuously tabled zero per cent.

The only thing that the employer did was to promise them that it would offer them a three per cent salary adjustment in 2020/21, which means that for three years (between 2017/18 and 2019/20) their salaries would not be adjusted.

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