I will not apologise: Nkuatsana tells BNP leadership I will not apologise: Nkuatsana tells BNP leadership
’Marafaele Mohloboli
ONE of the Basotho National Party (BNP) leadership hopefuls, ‘Mota Nkuatsana, has refused to apologise for accusing the Thesele Maseribane-led national executive committee (NEC) of corruption.
Adv Nkuatsana is one of the three contestants for the soon-to-be vacant BNP leadership post who allegedly went on national radio to accuse the NEC of corruption.
The other two are Professor Lehlohonolo Mosotho and ‘Mamotšepe Motšepe. They were slapped with letters demanding that they retract their statements and apologise for their conduct “which is likely to bring the party into disrepute”.
‘Lesotho 83rd most corrupt country in the world’ ‘Lesotho 83rd most corrupt country in the world’
LESOTHO has been ranked the 83
rd most corrupt country out of 180 countries on the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2020.
This represents a slight improvement from 85
th in the 2019 rankings.
According to Transparency International, the corruption watchdog, “scores 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and businesspeople”.
“A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Lesotho achieved a score of 41 while the joint top ranked least corrupt countries Denmark and New Zealand scored 88 out of 100.
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Govt denies NACOSEC overspending
Pascalinah Kabi
THE government has denied overshooting the Covid-19 budget, saying by December 2020, it had only spent about M341 million of the initial M698 million set aside to fight the pandemic.
Addressing the media yesterday, Dr Majoro’s press attaché, Mosito Moqhekoana, said the Ministry of Finance had released only about M403 million to the Office of the Prime Minister, through the Disaster Management Authority (DMA), to spend on Covid-19.
Of that M403 million, about M341 million had been used thus far. About 293,8 million of the M341 million had been spent on “key issues” like purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) and paying private facilities which were used as isolation centres for Covid-19 patients. The remainder had been used to pay the salaries of support staff and other operational expenses like fuel and telephone bills.
MASERU-PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has been accused of maintaining “an impervious indifference” in the manner he has handled the Covid-19 pandemic.That w