GILGAL:King Mswati’s ritual men(Bemanti) allegedly kidnapped Mbongeni Mamba’s children at Gilgal after a confrontation on Sunday morning.
Speaking to this Swaziland News, Mamba said he warned the ritual men to leave his home after they arrived with weapons and harassed him.
“I then collected stones and fought them and they ran away and came back with armed soldiers and kidnapped my children”, he said.
Mamba further alleged that, his children were kidnapped and taken to uMphakatsi.
Reached for comments on Sunday evening,King Mswati’s Spokesperson Percy Simelane said, the matter must be handled by the police as it “involves forced entry into someone’s home” and forceful movement of family members from one place to another.
“It appears to be a police case as it involves unlawful forced entry into someone's home and forceful movement of family members from one place to another. Our experience is that the water people go to the Indian Ocean in an orderly manner, using identifiable state vehicles.Their movement is monitored by security, and they do not have to look for army personnel when they are facing challenges along the way, to and from the Indian Ocean. We believe that after police investigation, we will know who these people were. With no intention to buy anyone out of this abnormality, we wish to say we have had similar cases before but upon investigation,the culprits were opportunists, trying to make a quick buck”,said the King’s Spokesperson when speaking to editor Zweli Martin Dlamini.
King Mswati(photo: supplied).