MBABANE: Senator Themba Masuku, the Acting Prime Minister says Government is concerned about the escalating rate of murders and suicides in the country.
Speaking during a press conference held at the Cabinet offices on Wednesday,the Acting Prime Minister reported that eighty-eight(88)people have been killed in different incidents across the country over the past three months adding that an average of thirty(30) a month, and that forty-six(46)have committed suicide during the same period, an average of fifteen(15)a month.
“Just this week, we learned with shock about the killing of four citizens in an unprecedented case of mob justice at Nkonka in the Shiselweni region.This comes in the wake of the sporadic killings of ordinary and well-known citizens in different incidents in the recent past.Government takes this opportunity to condemn these killings. No one has a right to take another person’s life, no matter the motivation to do so. Every life is precious and Government values every life. It is on that premise that Government appeals to emaSwati to find amicable ways of resolving their differences, other than killing each other,” said the Acting Prime Minister.
Acting Prime Minister Themba Masuku.