Lesotho: ABC's NEC, MPs Turn the Heat On Majoro

30 September 2020

Angry and frustrated members of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)'s national executive committee (NEC) and some of the party's legislators have given Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro a week to act on a host of their demands or risk a no-confidence vote when parliament reconvenes on 5 October 2020.

The ABC MPs and NEC were said to be locked in a meeting with Dr Majoro last night at his government offices in Maseru. They demanded the meeting to discuss his failure to address their grievances including the immediate removal of Acting Chief Justice 'Maseforo Mahase who they accuse of conniving with fired Attorney General Advocate Haae Phoofolo to recommend the appointment of five new judges to the High Court bench.

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