FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing has attributed his fallout with the coalition partner and current Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to disagreements over the withholding of former Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's terminal benefits after the latter was succeeded by Dr Thabane as premier in 2012.
Mr Metsing, who leads the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), was deputy prime minister in the first coalition comprising of Dr Thabane's All Basotho Convention (ABC) and Chief Thesele Maseribane's Basotho National Party (BNP) from 2012 to 2015. He said his attempts to broker peace between Dr Mosisili and Dr Thabane "cost me dearly with my then coalition partners". He said they also fell out after he resisted his coalition partners' demand for the firing of then Attorney General, Tšokolo Makhethe, and Director of Public Prosecutions, Leaba Thetsane.
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