The Swazi Observer, the newspaper in
effect owned by King Mswati III, has backed the Prime Minister Barnabas
Dlamini’s ban on MPs going on the radio.
Dlamini had banned MPs from the airwaves in Swaziland,
where all but one radio station is state-controlled and the PM is
editor-in-chief.
Dlamini said MPs could not go on air without the
permission of their areas’ chiefs. He said it was wrong for them to just go on
radio with issues which the chiefs were not even aware of.
The Observer, in an editorial, backed the premier, saying, ‘We don’t care about the national
radio ban he effected on them.’
In particular, the newspaper objected to MPs drawing
attention to the development needs of their constituents. ‘MPs are in Parliament to make laws and not
to play small time development officers,’ it said.
It went on to say it did not want to hear the MPs talking
about people’s needs like burials, school fees and elderly grants.
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