Africa-Press – Lesotho. And cheers and applause when a group of young people (Makoanyane Rangers) recruited by the Lesotho military with the aim of putting them in a three-month rehabilitation group burned down the party on Friday last week.
The move came as a military coup after Lesotho Army Commander Lieutenant General Mojalefa Letsoela ordered his army to launch a crackdown on criminals who were speeding up crime to rehabilitate them.
These young people were known by the name of numbers. Speaking to the couple, Letsoela said he had a strong hope that the young men and women would not return to the slums as they had completed the work and were convinced that they had changed.
He ordered them to return in a different form, which was to become part of the Armed Forces. “With the Makoanyane Rangers we are expecting big things, when you get to your villages you will be the ones who will change the crime,” Letsoela said.
He went on to call on the community to accept them as their children. Letsoela said on 27 ‘April 2021 a huge cloud of fear swept over the suburbs of Maseru town; Koalabata, Ha-Foso, Khubetsoana and surrounding villages.
He said that when he ordered the army to fetch them, the plan was to rehabilitate them for only four days but as they investigated they found out the cause of the actions which was so serious that some were recruited. and the list went from 16 to 74.
“We had our challenges being taken to court but we overcame those challenges, resources were also lacking but we applied for help and were assisted by Surprisingly, we were supported by various departments, so thank you.
When these children return home they will be given food every month. My biggest plea is for parents to stop harassing their children and harassing them, ”Letsoele appealed.
Leader of the army that was selected to develop the Makoanyane Rangers Captain Bokang Melato said when the teens were being treated as 71 boys and 3 girls, he said they were between the ages of 15 and 24, while one of the nominees was 34 years old.
they went to rehab for various reasons. “Some have come as a result of drug abuse, others have joined a group of people who are known to make headlines and who have been asked by their parents for misconduct,” Melato said.
He expressed his conviction that they had changed, adding that he realized that the main reason was that family values, cultural values and social values were broken.
Melato said the Ministry of Social Development will provide monthly food parcels to the families of these young people, while the Ministry of Gender, Youth, Sport and Recreation will provide M10 000 to help these young people, Business Uhuru will provide food parcels from September to November.
He thanked some of the companies that have always supported them while others have said they are looking after themselves. Speaking on behalf of the parents and a lawyer, Edgar Masoabi thanked the parents for the wonderful work they had done with their children, saying that the community was crying because of their cousins’ acts of horror. mele.
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