THE ex-Speaker of Swaziland’s Parliament is suing the government after he resigned after stealing cow dung from the king’s kraal. Mgabhi Dlamini quit on Wednesday after a motion to remove him failed narrowly to secure the necessary two-thirds majority in the House. He was, however, barred from Parliament for a month on the king’s orders. Attorney-General Phesheya Dlamini confirmed the ex-Speaker’s lawyer served notice of intention to sue. Dlamini claims he had the best of intentions when he took the cow dung in December during the sacred annual fertility ceremony, the Incwala. He gave it to a sangoma to use in a ritual to protect the Swazi royal house, and says he acted after dreaming of “a dark cloud hovering over Swaziland’s royal house”.