Africa-Press – Lesotho. THE Lesotho Police Staff Association (LEPOSA) deputy president, Inspector Teboho Molumo, has been booted out of the association. Six other members have also been expelled as a vicious power struggle rages on.
Inspector Molumo however told thepost on Tuesday that LEPOSA’s Annual General Meeting that resolved to expel him did not hear his side of the story. Inspector Molumo is accused of conniving with six other police officers to freeze the association’s bank accounts without the knowledge of the national executive committee.
He caused a stir last December when he allegedly held some LEPOSA national executive committee members hostage at gunpoint at the Auditor General’s office.
Inspector Molumo received his expulsion letter last week, four months after the AGM instructed the national executive committee to expel him from the association.
LEPOSA spokesman, Motlatsi Mofokeng, who is in self-exile, told thepost this week that “the behaviour displayed by those seven members was out of order”.
Mofokeng said the decision to expel them was reached at the AGM in February and was only being implemented now. He said Inspector Molumo and others wanted to cause chaos in the association by attempting to freeze their association’s accounts at a local bank.
“That move was beyond imaginable as we use that account to pay insurance policies for our members and their families,” Mofokeng said.
Mofokeng also said the LEPOSA constitution only allows the deputy president to hold meetings in the absence of the president. “The president has always been there.
How did they do such an act?” he said. “People should be aware that these members have been expelled forever. This means they will never be part of LEPOSA again.
” The letter sent to Inspector Molumo says the attempt to freeze LEPOSA’s bank account amounted to a crime. Mofokeng said LEPOSA is yet to decide whether to open a criminal case or not. “You signed. . . the resolution to freeze LEPOSA accounts”.
Inspector Molumo was once suspended from the association in December last year after he allegedly pointed a gun at a member of the executive committee during a heated meeting at the Auditor General’s office.
Inspector Molumo told thepost that his dismissal was unfair because the committee never sat down with him and asked for his side of the story. “I know that a few individuals in the committee do not like me,” Inspector Molumo said.
“The same congress did not get my side of the story. They must follow the principles of natural justice,” he said. He admitted to taking part in freezing the association’s accounts “because I had realised that they had been committing fraud”.
He complained that the association was also in the habit of not issuing financial reports to the members “because of the corruption that has been happening”.
“LEPOSA has an investment account with Nedbank but the NEC did not know about that,” he said, adding “It has about M200 000.
” He said there was no resolution to open an investment account.
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