{"id":20906,"date":"2022-10-25T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/ps-planning-assaults-subordinate-2"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:51:28","slug":"ps-planning-assaults-subordinate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/ps-planning-assaults-subordinate-2","title":{"rendered":"PS Planning assaults subordinate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Planning, Sello Justice Ts\u030cukulu, faces accusations of assaulting the ministry\u2019s director legal services, Advocate Leomile Mojaki. The assault of a female colleague by Ts\u030cukulu appears to the culmination of long-drawn-out bad blood between the two.<\/p>\n

Public Eye can report that commotion erupted at the ministry\u2019s head office on Wednesday this week, during what was supposed to be a disciplinary hearing of another colleague, and Advocate Mojaki\u2019s partner, over alleged insubordination and use of abusive language towards management.<\/p>\n

It is during a heated debate at the time that Advocate Mojaki told this paper that Ts\u030cukulu lost his cool and the preparations for the hearing turned into a verbal bout of insults.<\/p>\n

Ts\u030cukulu, she added, had similarly left the room earlier in a rage. Mojaki claims she also lost her temper and rushed out of the meeting, abandoning discussions and the heated debate on how to proceed with the hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I got out of the meeting room I passed the PS, who kicked me and started hurling insults at me,\u201d Mojaki said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked him why he had kicked me but he did not respond but continue verbally abusing me.
\nThe lawyer continued that as she drew near the minister\u2019s office and was about to go down the stairs, Ts\u030cukulu approached her from behind and threw a punch at her \u2013 upon which she fell and the PS continued to beat her up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t exactly recall all that transpired thereafter, except that I rushed to a nearby office, probably the minister\u2019s guards room, and barricaded myself in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PS continued yelling and hurling abusive statements at me, \u2018se**be tooe, ke bona eka o\u2019a ntella, o se**be!\u2019 He was uncontrollable but the people who had gathered nearby during the assault were holding him back, I didn\u2019t see who they were but they were men,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Advocate Mojaki said when the PS was later restrained she left for the Maseru Central Charge Office to lodge a complaint and seek a medical form to go the hospital for an examination. She added that when she returned to the police station, now in the company of her partner, she was confronted again by Ts\u030cukulu at station\u2019s gate.<\/p>\n

\u201cNtate Ts\u030cukulu alighted from his vehicle wielding a metal rod, went back to the car\u2019s boot where he pulled a fighting stick and approached us in a confrontational manner but police officers who were nearby brought him to order.<\/p>\n

We were then told to go inside the station where the PS later disappeared,\u201d Mojaki explained. In a brief interview last night, Ts\u030cukulu denied these allegations.<\/p>\n

He labelled them a smear campaign by Advocate Mojaki, whom she called \u201can unreliable, untrustworthy woman only bent on protecting her partner. \u201d \u201cThis woman can\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n

She is a liar, and only concocted the assault story to shift focus from the charge her partner faces. She has been lying that the accused, whom she calls her partner, is not available for the hearing yet I know for a fact that he is hiding somewhere in the offices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Inquiries by this paper into the matter suggest that the PS and his legal officer have been jostling over the former\u2019s directive to influence the results of a National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) debt collection tender in favour of two companies he allegedly had interests in.<\/p>\n

The NMDS multi-million debt collection tender has, since it was award to a local company Jamale Holdings about a decade ago, been marred by claims of fraud and controversy. Jamale Holdings was engaged by government on a five-year contract to collect overdue debts NMDS, which ran into millions of Maloti.<\/p>\n

One Mabona was in 2015 dragged to court facing fraud and forgery charges over documents to win a tender for his company, Jamale Holdings, to collect debts from NMDS beneficiaries on behalf of the government.<\/p>\n

Jamale\u2019s contract was terminated after it was reportedly discovered that Mabona had produced the fraudulent documents to the NMDS between 2011 and 2012. He first appeared before the Magistrate Court on November 11, 2015, before Senior Resident Magistrate, Peter Murenzi.<\/p>\n

In the first count of fraud, Mabona was accused of presenting to the NMDS false information that one Christopher Beans was part of the company so the NMDS could award a debt collection tender to his company.<\/p>\n

The prosecution alleged that Mabona gave the said false information so that the NMDS could \u201cact upon the representation to its detriment, thereby causing the NMDS personnel to so act.
\nIn the second count of fraud, he was accused of submitting to NMDS a fraudulent tax clearance certificate after realising a tax clearance certificate from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) was one of the requirements to qualify for the award of a tender for debt collection on behalf of NMDS.<\/p>\n

Mabona has since died. Lesotho Mounted Police Services spokesperson, Senior Superintendent Mpiti Mopeli, could not give details pertaining to Advocate Mojaki\u2019s case last night, indicating that such information has not reached his yet.<\/p>\n

MEC leader, and also the Minister of Planning, Selibe Mochoboroane, could also not be found to react to these developments involving senior officials in his ministry \u2013 and to respond to claim levelled against MEC.<\/p>\n

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