Defence Minister Mosito fired
as Masoetsa blasts “spineless” Majoro for the decision.
‘Marafaele Mohloboli
PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has fired Defence and National Security Minister Lekhetho Mosito barely two weeks after appointing him to the post.
Although Dr Majoro did not give reasons for the move, Mr Mosito this week bared his soul to the
Lesotho Times. He said the writing had been on the wall for him since last Tuesday when the premier told him that he was under immense pressure from ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) apparatchiks to fire him.
Mr Mosito, the ABC’s legislator for the Likhetlane constituency, said Dr Majoro had even apologised for his imminent ouster. He said the premier told him that he had no choice but sacrifice him to save his own position after senior ABC officials had threatened to oust him as prime minister if he did not get rid of Mr Mosito.
Recruitment of judges begins
Mohalenyane Phakela
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has begun recruiting seven new judges to ease the huge backlog of cases in the High Court.
The recruitment process got underway this week with the publication of the vacancies on the government website on Monday.
The JSC invited qualified candidates to apply or be nominated for the posts by the public. The deadline for the submission of applications and nominations is 27 February 2021.
According to the JSC, there will be background checks on all applicants and nominees and they will also be required to prove that they are in good health. This will be followed by the shortlisting of the candidates and public interviews to choose the final list of nominees to be submitted to His Majesty King Letsie III for appointment.
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Lesotho’s human trafficking and drugs shocker!!!
prompting His Majesty’s office to ask for a probe into his activities.
Mohalenyane Phakela/ Herbert Moyo
CONTROVERSIAL Pakistani national, Rama Qamar, who has been accused of human trafficking alongside some senior government officials, could also have been involved in the equally heinous crime of drug trafficking, the
Lesotho Times has learnt.
Mr Qamar’s alleged criminality prompted His Majesty King Letsie III’s Senior Private Secretary (SPS), Monehela Posholi, to implore the police to probe the controversial Pakistani because he was allegedly selling drugs to, among others, National University of Lesotho (NUL) students putting their futures at stake. But nothing seems to have been done by the police, then under the control of former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s coalition.
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