{"id":9558,"date":"2022-02-04T19:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mochoboroane-says-not-afraid-of-jail"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:37:05","slug":"mochoboroane-says-not-afraid-of-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mochoboroane-says-not-afraid-of-jail","title":{"rendered":"Mochoboroane says not afraid of jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Movement for Economic Change (MEC) leader, Selibe Mochoboroane, says he is not afraid to go to jail over the \u201ctrumped up\u201d charges of treason. He told party supporters at a rally in Mechechane in Butha-Buthe last Sunday that there were people who were out to get him jailed.<\/p>\n

Mochoboroane said he remains unshaken by the threats. \u201cThey are just politicking,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a political game and I will play it. \u201d Two weeks ago, Mochoboroane and Mothetjoa Metsing, who leads the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party, lost a court case in which they sought to block the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) from charging them with treason.<\/p>\n

The Court of Appeal ruled that \u201cClause 10\u201d of an agreement signed by political parties and SADC that they should not be charged until after the national reforms are completed was unconstitutional. The DPP is now expected to charge them with treason.<\/p>\n

Mochoboroane, Metsing and former Lesotho army commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, who has been languishing in jail since 2017, are accused of plotting to topple the then Prime Minister Thomas Thabane.<\/p>\n

A defiant Mochoboroane however told his party supporters that the prosecution was political. \u201cI am not scared of being taken to jail,\u201d Mochoboroane said.<\/p>\n

He said he will not skip the country like the late Ntsu Mokhehle did in the 1970s when the then BNP government threatened him. \u201cSome people who have decided to arrest me should do so and jail me in Lesotho,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will always find me here.<\/p>\n

\u201d He said his followers should not panic because \u201cthis is how politics are played\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a politician in Lesotho and I will play politics in Lesotho,\u201d he said. Mochoboroane said the MEC will never stop telling the truth and playing its watchdog role where things are not right.<\/p>\n

He cited what he called the scandalous seizure of Lesotho\u2019s assets abroad, saying these are some of the things the party will continue fighting irrespective of whether its leadership is imprisoned or not.<\/p>\n

He said Frazer Solar company\u2019s deal with the government did not make any business sense and the contract\u2019s stipulation that disputes will be resolved in South African courts was stupid.<\/p>\n

Lesotho is a sovereign state with its own courts for dispute resolution or arbitration. \u201cIt does not make sense that the seizure of Lesotho\u2019s assets was made by a South African court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese things happen when people who do not care about this country get in power,\u201d he said. He called on the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) to investigate the issue and find out what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are only interested in arresting and jailing me instead of the real criminals out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Lesotho. Movement for Economic Change (MEC) leader, Selibe Mochoboroane, says he is not afraid to go to jail over the \u201ctrumped up\u201d charges of treason. He told party supporters at a rally in Mechechane in Butha-Buthe last Sunday that there were people who were out to get him jailed. 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