MATSAPHA: “I won’t have money this month, I must pay the installment to the senior police officer at the Headquarters who helped me with the job”.
These were the alleged sentiments of the late police recruit Simhle Fakudze who was a member of the newly formed Swazis First Democratic Front(SFDF) political organization.
According to her colleagues who are undergoing training at the Police College,Simhle informed them that she would be broke this month because the money must pay the senior officer at the Headquarters who assisted her to ‘beat’ the vetting process and get employed in the police service.
The pro-democracy police recruit of Hosea was buried on Friday evening,political activists were banned from attending the funeral.
National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini declined to comment regarding the decision by the police to secretly conduct a funeral for the late police recruit linked to the pro-democracy movement.
Speaking to this Swaziland News this week, Siboniso Mkhabela,the Chairman of the Community of Organizers says police are covering-up the huge embarrassment of recruiting a political activist by preventing the pro-democracy movement from attending the funeral.
The late Simhle Fakudze, a member of the Swazis First Democratic Front(SFDF) managed to be recruited by the police despite a vetting process preventing those calling for democracy, the police officer died in a car accident at Sidvokodvo this week.
“The police were embarrassed to recruit a comrade despite the vetting process. So now, they are trying to cover-up that embarrassment,” said the Chairman of the Community of Organizers.
The late Simhle Fakudze.