Africa-Press – Lesotho. Mootsi Lehata behaved like a clown in parliament last week. Laughing like he was in a shebeen. Spewing insults as if someone had stolen his goats. He even used the ‘F’ word on Lejone Mpotjoane.
“Moshanyana enoa a se ke a ntella. Se ke oa ntella sonny, f**k you,” he said in response to Mpotjoane. Muckraker doesn’t know Mpotjoane to be a moshanyana. What she knows is what Lehata did to a ngoanana a few years ago.
The girl dropped the rape case on the condition that Lehata builds her a house and pays for the child’s upkeep. So ke eena ea tellang molao. Some might say it’s water under the bridge but Muckraker doesn’t forgive.
Never! For now, we should talk about his monkeyshines in parliament. He looked high on something. Lehata can however deny it. He can say he was shaking because he had spent sleepless nights plotting to topple Uncle Sam.
He can claim he was shaking with excitement at the prospect of becoming a minister again. If that doesn’t cut it he can say wasn’t drunk but just suffering from a hangover.
That might work because he could say those who say he was drunk on that Monday should have seen him on Sunday. He could claim he was still suffering the effects of knocking down several bottles taller than him.
But whatever happens, no one can prove that he was high. Yes, a test could have revealed that he had blood in his alcohol but that is now beside the point because it didn’t happen.
In any case, Muckraker has seen worse things in parliament. Remember how some MPs spanked each other a few years ago? Chairs and bins were given wings.
An MP was once captured on camera groping another. As for insults, worse things have been said. Some of the MPs don’t need to be insulted to feel humiliated.
Imagine how it feels to be an LCD MP. You see it in their faces that they are beating themselves. No wonder they are not even mentioned as part of the opposition.
They are not in opposition, not government and not in the crossbench. They are there, somewhere there. Muckraker would not sleep well if she ended these musings without mentioning one small thing.
During the debate on Lehata’s tomfoolery, one opposition MP said the Speaker should protect MPs so that their images are not manipulated to tarnish their reputation.
Yeah, right! You must have a reputation first for it to be tarnished. Muckraker and 98.9 percent of Basotho know 99 percent of our MPs to be freeloading, greedy and power-hungry charlatans. That is their reputation. Those who say our MPs are honest and hardworking are tarnishing that sterling reputation.
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