{"id":5561,"date":"2021-11-07T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/from-bodyguard-to-minister"},"modified":"2021-11-07T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:13:59","slug":"from-bodyguard-to-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/from-bodyguard-to-minister","title":{"rendered":"From bodyguard to minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>POLICE Minister Lepota Sekola counts two former prime ministers among his mentors. Today, he regards one of them, Pakalitha Mosisili, as a major political rival.<\/p>\n

The other, Thomas Thabane, is still Sekola\u2019s political leader and ally. Mosisili was once leader of both Sekola and Thabane. As Mosisisi\u2019s chauffeur, Sekola said he would watch in awe as the then prime minister shrewdly plotted his political survival.<\/p>\n

Sekola, 57, a former soldier, was part of Mosisili\u2019s close security details. \u201cI witnessed him always meticulously conducting his affairs and this conjured up my political consciousness. Mosisili was unaware that in a big way he was influencing me to join politics,\u201d said Sekola.<\/p>\n

Sekola is a staunch member of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, which has always been in a political tug-of-war with Mosisili\u2019s Democratic Congress (DC) party even when they are in a coalition government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learnt a lot from Mosisili ever since I joined his security team as a soldier from 1997 to 2002. I liked it and decided to follow his steps,\u201d said the Makhaleng MP. However, Sekola did not join Mosisili\u2019s party after leaving the army despite secretly studying the man\u2019s political tactics.<\/p>\n

Instead, he joined the ABC as an ordinary card carrying member and claims that he does not plan to stay for too long in politics as he is planning to retire after completing his second term as an MP.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut my retirement will depend on what my followers want,\u201d said Sekola, who is serving his first term in parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they still trust me to lead then I won\u2019t just leave like that.<\/p>\n

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\nHe swore never to defect to another political party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it gets to that then, I will know my time is up. I am not going to be a political prostitute. \u201d Sekola joined the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) after completing Form E at St John High School.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I would be a politician or even a minister,\u201d he said, adding that he was shocked when Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro appointed him a minister.<\/p>\n

He described his current job as \u201cchallenging\u201d but said men and women in uniform braved bigger challenges in their fight against criminality. He identified being deployed to stations far away from the family as one of the biggest challenges faced by police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cA human being is a human being. When they are placed far away from their spouses and nature takes control they end up attached to their lovers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Another pressing issue is the growing spate of killings of police officers countrywide. He also says the killing of police officers and the widespread murders countrywide are worrying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s worrying, it\u2019s saddening and it causes emotional numbness,\u201d said the minister, who has been in his current role for five months.<\/p>\n

He said he learnt during his tours of crime scenes that police killings were partly a result of secret love affairs between the police and people in the communities they serve.<\/p>\n

Others are linked to gangs, he said, noting that some officers are allegedly involved in famo music gangs. As a result, they sometimes attract the fatal wrath of rival gangs.<\/p>\n

Other police officers, he said, are killed by relatives and friends of people they would have tortured to death in holding cells. He says the police need counseling considering the gruesome nature of the cases they encounter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am still working towards addressing this issue,\u201d he said, referring to a Mokhotlong case where the police are having sleepless nights after the killing of their colleagues.<\/p>\n

He said the freeing of suspects of heinous crimes on bail by the courts was another challenge in the fight against crime. \u201cOur officers still make arrests but the suspects get bail in less than a week and start roaming the streets even before victims can heal,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd instead of the culprits showing remorse, they go on to commit more crimes knowing that it is easy to get bail. This leads to angry societies where people can resort to taking the law into their own hands,\u201d said Sekola.<\/p>\n

He suggested amendments to the law to impose harsher penalties to deter people from committing crimes such as rape and murder. \u201cPunishment should be harsh to make perpetrators think twice before committing such crimes.<\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t be harsh on paper only but there should be implementation, something our justice system lacks. \u201d
\nHe warned police officers involved in criminality that they would be punished.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust yesterday, I received a report on suspended officers accused of torturing suspects to death.<\/p>\n

And we will do our best for justice to prevail. I don\u2019t need such officers,\u201d Sekola thundered. \u201cWe are already working on bringing back the death penalty for murderers.<\/p>\n

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\nOn police officers aligned to famo gangs, Sekola said while law enforcement agents have a right to listen to music of their choice, they have to stay away from factional wars.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt destroys the image of the police,\u201d he said. He also warned the police against using their power to drive political agendas.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers shouldn\u2019t show which political party they support. We need to have a law prohibiting such conduct. I am in talks with the relevant minister about this,\u201d he said. Infiltration of the police by political actors \u201chas become a big problem\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey get too excited for bribes regardless of their obligation to be impartial,\u201d he said, accusing politicians of dangling money to lure police officers to do their bidding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am working hard to root out this practice. Politicians should leave the police alone because their involvement destroys police operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sekola said it becomes difficult for the police to reject undue demands from a ruling politician if they have all along allowed themselves to be politically impartial.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the politician finally wins elections it becomes difficult to reject their control if in the past the police entertained their political influence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On the torture of suspects in detention, Sekola said a strategy was in the works to train police officers on methods to extract information from suspects without resorting to violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are other ways to get information from a suspect other than violation of their rights.<\/p>\n

Suspects need to be interrogated, but the police should bear in mind that the suspects have rights too. \u201d Sekola said the training of police officers will be conducted with the help of Botswana.<\/p>\n

The training, he said, \u201cwill remind the police who they are, their responsibilities and what\u2019s expected of them\u201d. He said the government has also invited the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to help equip Lesotho with investigating techniques and other crime intelligence strategies.<\/p>\n

He said inviting the FBI to train local law enforcement agents helped empower the police with skills on technological and investigations best practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey focused mostly on CIDs and search operations of machines for the national criminal fingerprint database.<\/p>\n

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\nHe said the US Embassy is sponsoring a diplomatic security visit for women police officers to support increased collaboration between Lesotho and South Africa on human trafficking for a month scheduled for early next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like NGOs to tag along as well because preventing human trafficking is not just a job for the police. Collaboration between the police and independent individuals will help us to win this battle.<\/p>\n

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\nSekola said the launch of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Referral Mechanism (NRM) for victims of human trafficking has empowered the police with skills and resources to do their job.<\/p>\n

Sekola said he plans to meet his South African counterpart Bheki Cele soon to collaborate on how they can curb cross-border stock theft that is now a headache for both countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking collaboratively will help us succeed as we both feel the heat.<\/p>\n

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\nLack of adequate resources is another challenge that can be solved by working in collaboration with wealthier countries, the minister said.<\/p>\n

He lamented the lack of resources such as vehicles which have resulted in the police sometimes failing to attend to crime scenes timeously or even failing to prevent predictable crimes.<\/p>\n

Sekola said over 100 police cars are grounded due to mechanical faults. \u201cI have since noticed that the cars require minor repairs but because of the tedious government procurement processes the cars are not repaired on time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have since agreed with the Chinese Embassy that they will help repair our cars,\u201d he said, adding that \u201chowever, that tender will be given to a Chinese and not a Mosotho\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sekola said out of despair, some police officers dip their hands into their own pockets to buy spare parts for the cars they use at work so that they continue to give the public the required service.<\/p>\n

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