By Zweli Martin Dlamini

MBABANE Members of the Swaziland International Solidarity Forces(SISF) invaded Sidvwashini Correctional Services on Wednesday night and killed a warder identified as Jobe.

Speaking to this Swaziland News in an exclusive interview on Thursday morning shortly after the operation, one of the SISF members who was leading the operation said they arrived at around 11:45pm, produced guns and ordered the officer at the gate to comply with their orders.

“We ordered the officer to comply, he promised to take all orders from us but later screamed and disturbed our operation. Upon hearing the screaming, the officers inside the Prison were busy calling other officers for a back-up and we decided to leave with the one officer. We drove with him to the Oshoek Industrial Site where he was killed and dumped. We wanted to kill all warders inside that Prison,” he said.

The member of the Solidarity Forces said they managed to seize a Gaelile assault rifle with 15 live rounds of ammunition. He said the guns they were seizing these days would be used in future operations.

The SISF member then mentioned names of senior Correctional Services officers who were allegedly leading the operation to assault the incarcerated Members of Parliament(MPs) that they would be all killed.

Other names of the senior officers cannot be revealed for now but Correctional Services Commissioner Phindile Dlamini is one of them.

A questionnaire was sent to Superintendent Phindile Vilakati, however, she had not responded at the time of compiling this report.

But Correctional Services Spokesperson Superintendent Gugulethu Dlamini confirmed the killing of the warder when speaking to the media.

Tension is escalating in this tiny Kingdom after King Mswati refused to participate in a political dialogue and subsequently unleashed his security officers to shoot and kill dozens of civilians merely for demanding democratic reforms.

Incarcerated MPs Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube were assaulted and almost killed inside prison after an order allegedly issued by King Mswati.

The list of the warders who assaulted the MPs is now in possession of the Solidarity Forces.