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By MBONO MDLULI | 2023-08-15
Police have warned women that it is a criminal offence to accept transport money from a man and end up not seeing him.
According to the police, the woman’s freedom may as a result of this be at the mercy of that man.
This was shared by Sindi Ndlovu, a Crime Prevention Officer within the Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) on Saturday during a crime prevention event organised by the Big-Bend police, in conjunction with Stefanutti Stocks.
Ndlovu said such culprits needed to be brought to book.
“There are these ladies who convince men to provide them with money for transport so that they can be able to see them and end up not honouring that promise.
That is a criminal offence and I encourage men to approach the nearest police station so that these women can be brought to book,” she said.
Her message was met with amusement from the over 200 men and women who had attended the event.
The subject generated interest, especially from the men. Some were heard saying they had many women to report to the police station for such an offence.
Some admitted that they did not know that such an act was criminal.
They were further educated by the police that such an act was theft by false pretences.
Ndlovu further encouraged men who were victims of abuse from their wives to report them to the nearest police stations.
She said she was aware that some wives had a tendency of beating their husbands because they knew that men would feel embarrassed to report such matters to the police.
The crime prevention officer also stated that many women were abused by their husbands and such incidents had to be reported to alleviate crime in the country.
Ndlovu pleaded with men to know that a rod was not supposed to be used on their wives because that would not ensure the welfare of the residents of their homesteads.
She spoke of a special rod that was supposed to be used to beat women.
She further warned members of the public to avoid scams at all costs in order to protect their hard-earned money.
“Please avoid depositing money into accounts you do not know because chances are that you will end up not getting that money back,” she said.
The police officer said there were people who deceived others by telling them that they had won themselves bags of AfriSam cement and all they had to do was send E45.
Ndlovu said that was just not true because there was no bag of AfriSam cement that cost such an amount.
She further pleaded with members of the public to ensure that they were not deceived by people who told them that they had won huge amounts of money, even though they had not played any lottery game.
The police officer said it was the same as a situation where a person would call another and say he was from the deputy prime minister’s office when he was not.
Such bogus officers called the elderly and deceive them into believing they were supposed to receive their elderly grants through their Mobile Money accounts.
The scammers would tell the elderly to send certain amounts of money in order to receive their grants.
Big-Bend Police Station Deputy Station Commander, Almon Sidumo Nkonde thanked individuals and organisations that contributed to the success of the event. Nkonde thanked Stefanutti Stocks for donating school uniforms to children from around Big-Bend and a goat for the teams that participated in football games.
Stefanutti Site Agent, Lukhetfo Magongo, said they became part of the event after the police visited them to teach about crime prevention.
Magongo said they had been victims of crime in several incidents, where their materials and fuel was stolen.
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