Police boss faces arrest
MASERU — Police Commissioner, Kizito Mhlakaza faces arrest by the military for contempt of court.
The Lesotho Defence Force commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli and the military police boss Colonel Phoka Nkeli were served with a High Court order to arrest Mhlakaza on Tuesday.
The order was issued by Justice ’Maseforo Mahase. This was after Mhlakaza allegedly defied the judge’s order on Monday directing him to release Eyob Belay Asemie, a 34-year-old Mosotho man of Ethiopian origin, who was arrested on Sunday.
Police raided Asemie’s Thetsane house last Saturday despite the fact that they did not have a search warrant.
He was then arrested on Sunday but no charges were laid against him.
On Monday Justice Mahase ordered that he be released but Mhlakaza allegedly ordered that Asemie be kept in custody.
On Tuesday Asemie’s lawyer, Tekane Maqakachane, then got an interim order from Justice Mahase directing that Mhlakaza be arrested for contempt of court.
The order says the military police should arrest the commissioner because junior police officers might be afraid to do so.
Mhlakaza is expected to appear before Justice Mahase on Thursday next week to answer charges of contempt of court.
Court papers show that Mhlakaza allegedly ordered his subordinates to keep Asemie in custody “until he otherwise directed” despite that the court order demanded his immediate release.
The Lesotho Times has been informed that Asemie “escaped” from police custody on Monday afternoon as his lawyer was filing a contempt of court charge against the commissioner.
Advocate Maqakachane however told the Lesotho Times on Tuesday that Asemie’s whereabouts were not known.
“We want him from the police because the last time we saw him he was in their unlawful custody,” Maqakachane said.
“We would understand if they said he was released as per the court order but they say he escaped. Are they expecting us to believe that tosh (rubbish)?” he said.
In his affidavit Asemie says the order for his release was received by a police lawyer, one Advocate Ntsane, who immediately informed Mhlakaza.
He says the commissioner “in my presence and where I was hearing the communication directed and ordered Advocate Ntsane not to release me until further notice”.
After that, Asemie says, Mhlakaza ignored calls from the officers and Maqakachane.
Maqakachane left the police station after unsuccessful calls to Mhlakaza and went to the High Court to seek an order for the
commissioner’s arrest.
Asemie had been arrested on Sunday night, a day after about 30 officers from the Special Operations Unit raided his house.
The police, led by an officer only identified as Loke, arrived at his home at around 10 at night and demanded to search his house.
“I informed them that I needed my lawyer to be present. They did not tell me what offence the search was in connection with,” Asemie said in court papers.
“When my legal representative, Adv Maqakachane arrived, he demanded from them whether they had any search warrant to which they replied that they did not have,” he said.
“When they persisted in their efforts to enter and search my house, and aware that they might break and forcefully enter my house, I ordered my wife to open the door.”
The police’s search lasted until 1am on Monday morning but they did not find anything.
At 6am they went back to his house and he called Maqakachane again, who told them that he would take him to the police station at 8am.
Asemie says at the police headquarters he was asked “general questions relating to one lady I knew to be Israel Wondafrash, my Lesotho passport, and other general information about my family”.
“I requested to be informed about why I should report myself at the police station but once again I was never informed of anything nor any offence I might have committed,” he said.
He says at 1pm he was called into an assistant commissioner’s office where he was told, in Maqakachane’s presence, that Mhlakaza had ordered that he should not be released until he so directed.
That was when Maqakachane went to the High Court seeking an order to release him, which Mhlakaza disobeyed.
Asemie says he spent Monday night at the police station and the next morning no officer attended to him.
He says Mhlakaza was not answering calls from anybody until at noon when Maqakachane moved a contempt of court application.
Asemie arrived in Lesotho as an Ethiopian refugee in 2003.
His trouble started when he applied for Lesotho citizenship.
Asemie says he was due to be sworn-in as a Lesotho citizen together with 12 other foreigners early this year by the then Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla but that attempt was foiled.
He claims his name was struck off the roll at the last minute under controversial circumstances.
This was in spite of a recommendation last December by the Ombudsman Alina Fanana that he be granted citizenship.
Asemie accuses the National Security Service, police, senior home affairs officials and the Commissioner of Refugees, Mohlolo Lerotholi, of thwarting his bid for citizenship.
Asemie says he first attempted to acquire Lesotho citizenship in August 2010 but when he entered the hall where the ceremony was being held he was ordered out “or the police would be called to throw me out”.
He says he then tried again last March but officials at the immigration department struck his name off the list.
According to the Ombudsman’s report released in December, Asemie has been denied citizenship because he was suspected of trafficking Pakistanis and some north Africans into Lesotho.
He denies the charges.
He told this paper then that he was not involved in human trafficking.
In July the Commissioner of Refugees, Mohlolo Lerotholi, complained to MoAfrika FM radio station about an Ethiopian who he said had acquired Lesotho citizenship fraudulently and is possibly associated with human trafficking.
Although Lerotholi did not mention him by name this paper is aware that Asemie is the only Ethiopian refugee who has been accused of human trafficking.
Days after Lerotholi’s statements Prime Minister Thomas Thabane said the government will deport a “Mosotho man of Ethiopian origin if it is established that he is involved in criminal activities”.
Thabane was responding to a question at a press conference when he said the Ethiopian should “go into hiding immediately” because he (Thabane) hated crime.
He said his government will not hesitate to deport the man if it is proven that he is involved in crime.
“I am told that his matters are in the courts,” Thabane said.
“I hate crime with all my heart. This man, if indeed he is found to be committing the said crimes, should be deported,” he said.
Comment by 7noto on 16 August 2012:
na kizoto ena ha a kena ka paqama moo, or was he not trafficked into lesotho.
lepolesa le ferekangoa ke jesi e subeloang ka hara borikhoe hampe, joale o tsebe haleka la fasa lebanta holima jesi teng ke mathata, le ka oja ole tala
Comment by semenekane on 16 August 2012:
Mhlakaza u tlameha ho tsoha monnaheso other wise Setlokotsebe sena se tla u isa Chankaneng. Ha Lekhotla le ka u fumana u le molato tabeng ena ea nyeliso ea Lekhotla, u tla tlameha ho e hlaba ka Monkhoane Lepantsula.
Hake ts’ehetse Asemie eono oa tsotsi ea ratang hore ho etsoe thato ea hae Lesotho mona, empa le teng Sepolesa se tlameha ho bonts’a boiphihlelo ts’ebetsong ea sona.
Mhlakaza ha a boele boruting hle, ke ntse ke ipotsa hore na o khethiloe joang hore e be COMPOL? Mathata khiliki!
Comment by Lelingoana Tumisang on 16 August 2012:
Moruti Mhlakaza is paving his way on other people’s expenses, empa taba ea hose rate competition ke eona e sa tlo mo nts’etsa pele boetelling pele ba hae. O sa re liofisiri li etsoe payoff joale? Chee Ntate Nkemele o re soabisitse rona ba bang ka khetho ea ho etsa Mhlakaza COMMISSIONER
Comment by maincampus on 16 August 2012:
This is the new dispensation you were all yearning for? Watch and see it crumble. Its like the tower of babel already, just weeks into the circus
Comment by Maka-aka on 16 August 2012:
While we all wish for due process as well as checks and balances, the fact is the justice system is slow and ultimately seems useless. This is putting unfair pressure on law enforcement. That is ultimately what will run this nation to the ground. we can only do things right when the courts of this land will be expedient, and rescue the rule of law. Law makers as well should be seen to attend real issues and leave self-serving agendas behind.
Comment by semenekane on 16 August 2012:
@ Makoatsi Liteboho
Mahlape Morai eena o kamme haholo ka sekolong. Ngoanana eo o phetlile libuka monna heso. Ntaote, Moseme, Mphats’oane le Theko bona ba qosuoe hantle kaha ba le corrupt.
Ntate Mahao is old fashioned Police Officer, hoja ba nyollotsoe Mpota Nthako hona le eena.
Mhlakaza is incompetent to be Compol.
Comment by The Enlightened ONE on 16 August 2012:
Why the hell dont the police do their bloddy job and provide hard hitting evidence of people he trafficked into Lesotho. You cant treat a fellow african like this based un assumptions. Bring facts, show us his human trafficking network, bring forth the people he helped traffic. LMPS are just a bunch of useless baffoons.
Comment by Moeletsi on 16 August 2012:
Ke ipotsetsa fela, na UNHCR ha e ka tseba taba tsee tsa ho ithaha maoto hoa sepolesa ka motho eo oa bona (UNHCR), Lesotho ha le na ho iqabanya le UN ka mabaka aa a incompetence ea sepolesa se palamang?
@The Enlightened One, o lemme ka sepane sa ka monna heso, ke maikutlo a matle ano.
Haele litaba tsa hore mang o jana le mang tsona ha ke na ho kena ho tsona, ntle le haeba ke linnete mme ke tsona tse tla qetella li re kenyetsa metsi ka moeli. Monna enoa ha a qosoe ka litatofatso tsena kapa a tlohelloe a iphelele hantle le bana ba hae, ha re batle criminal elements ka har’a rona, empa mapolesa a lokela ho bont’sa professionalism tabeng ena.
Comment by Rhino Horn on 16 August 2012:
Khelek, li thata tsa ka sepoleseng. le buwa litaba tse kakang.
Comment by LEKHOARA on 16 August 2012:
Hantle legal ea mapoleseng moo e sebetsang? It was ‘Malejaka who the Chief Justice saved from going to prison, now Mhlakaza is about to go [prison].
Mhlakaza oee! le liakhente tsa hao tsa mapolesa, you contest the court order in court, hao etse manganga feela joalo ka lepolesa.
The court order was sought before 48hours can expire because motho enoa ho sechoa ha hae a be a tsoaroe a sa bolelloe hore na o belaelloa ka eng.
Joale lekhotla le file Mhlakaza a week to bring charges against the man failing which he should be let free a phele joalo ka mang kapa mang.
Minister of Police, hooa bonahala hore o tlameha ho koetlisa sepolesa to avoid regular embarassment, likhoka tsa sepolesa lise li felletsoe ke nako in this day and age of human rights.
Comment by Limeme on 16 August 2012:
Basotho!
Ka chebo eaka ea mahlo ha hona motho ea senang nyatsi ha re tsoeng private life ea Kizito, re shebaneng le tse motobileng tsa mosebetsi. Banna ba bangata Lesotho mona bana le linyatsi tse fetang lekholo.
Basotho ‘Nete ea taba Mahlape Morai ke DR. Sepoleseng mona ha a kena ka Form E joaloka ba bang ba lona. Hare ba ba hlompheleng private life ea bona please
Comment by Lefefooane on 16 August 2012:
Caswell Tlali, please do not waste your time on this story. No police boss will be arrested. Rather we will have that Ethipian executed by fair or faul means. Either we deport that Ethiopian or we execute him. Finish and klaar. Le re luba Letopia eh? We should clear this matter as soon as possible as we have more serious issues facing our nation other than having the whole army, police, magisterates, high court judges and minsister waste time and resources on some rotten Ethiopian. Nxa. Ha tsamae a eo matha mabelo koana hahabo ha re mo hloke mona. We will eliminate this bustartd. That is for sure.
Comment by Pompong on 16 August 2012:
@Limeme, I agree with you. I don’t understand why people like to talk about people’s personal/private life instead of adressing issues at hand. Please grow and leave private lives. Ha re bueng litaba eseng masaoana.
Comment by Limeme on 16 August 2012:
@Pompong, thanx my dear! Hare bueng litaba tse hahang sechaba, re tsoeng ka malapeng a batho ba bang.
Comment by KOENA on 16 August 2012:
qalang le tso’are ba IEC baneng bakhethise tsoelikana ka likhetho tsa local gov feela court oder elithibetse.re khathetse ke ma DC ana
Comment by KOENA on 16 August 2012:
ke hula mantose aka.haatsoaroe hammoho le moethopia eno.feela ntate Hae Phoofolo oitse o makalitsoe ke court oder feela motho aso qete 48 hrs ale maponeseng.rethuseng hleeee!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Sbegdene on 16 August 2012:
We’re living in a global world. As long as Asemie is in Lesotho by legal means, then he has every right to stay in Lesotho and be afforded his rights.
Problem ea rona ke pelo tse mpe Basotho! Joale le ‘muso oa malaslapi o nkang litaba li radiong!!!
Wake up guys, lefats’e le chenchile..ke Basotho ba bakae ba phelang linaheng tsa machaba a mang? Most of them illegaly?
Comment by Patriot on 16 August 2012:
A serious judiciary joke
Come issues relative to numerous unresolved local court cases- Zero commitment from “judges”.
Come issues relative to foreign inssues where individual judges have personal interest- Overwhelming commitment from “judges”.
This demonstrates incompetent, corruption, lack of patriotism and selfishness.
What kind of judgements are these.
Comment by MHS on 16 August 2012:
@Koena, wee bathong, this article is about an ethiopian that can be very harmful to the basotho nation and probably has been, wena u kena ka DC. I bet your going to say that the DC has him at their headquarters. Coalition government has been in power for a while and believe it or not they finally have their chance at ruling so discussing yesterdays news isnt helping the coalition find this guy now. DC has no power to go and capture this guy or harbour him. the coalition government has the power and it seems its tough for them. very tough.
Comment by KOENA on 16 August 2012:
@MHS.ke kopa tsoarelo hle moholoane.hae hate ka maro.
Comment by semenekane on 16 August 2012:
@ Lekhoara
Ena ea ho etsa manganga feela e ke ke ea sebetsa pusong ea democracy. Legal Police Officers ba lokela ho sebetsa ‘moho le Investigation team hape le office ea Bochochisi ho ritela linyeoe tse matla khahlanong le Litloli tsa molao.
Tip :
Lilemo tse paseng ea Asemie ea Ithopia hali ts’oane le tse paseng ea Lesotho. Batlisisang hore ho ke ke hoaba le fraud case moo. Tt will be count 1
Mosali eo Asemie a month roakileng fonong, sebelisang bopaki ba hae ho etsa qoso ea extortion. Tt will be count 2
Batlang hore ho fumantsoeng pasa ea Lesotho, haho bribery moo. That will be count 3
Comment by Matsie on 16 August 2012:
le ‘na kea belaela ka le motho hore na motho eo a tsunyoa-thunya ka babaka afe?Seropo se teng mono ho melaella,Mapolesa ha tloheloe a phethe mosebetsi hoba 2mrw re tlabe rella re re haba sebetse empa basitisoa ka li court order tsa hang-hang
Comment by observer on 16 August 2012:
lefefooane, why am i not surprised by your utterances? spoken like a real cowboy
Comment by Selomo on 16 August 2012:
“The arrest and charging of offenders in Lesotho are the primary functions of the police; their ultimate prosecution rests with the Director of Public Prosecutions (Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act of 1981). It is important to note here that prosecution of offenders is under the discretion of the Director of Public Prosecutions who however cannot prosecute if the police have not investigated the case, arrested and charged the suspects”. Justice Mahapela Lehohla, 17 January 2003.
Politicians should not interfere in criminal investigations and prosecutions! Even if it’s at the risk of being accused of being an accomplice in the murder of your best friend and your beloved son.
Comment by Moithuti on 16 August 2012:
Nako e tla senola hore na nneete ke efe.
Comment by BKC on 16 August 2012:
The noises that are accompanying this newly elected democratic government are astounding!
Such noises always herald a sad calm to follow-whether it being from the sad recognition of reality or key achievements shall be told by historians hereafter.
My major fear as a citizen, however, is that in a bid to start electioneering for 2017 the coalition may come with such a haste that may cause it to collapse before it could learn to stand!
Thabane, pause and reflect then act steadily but without haste!
Comment by lerato on 16 August 2012:
Che joale hona ke blunder. Khilik! Comment ea minister on Lephola the other morning, ke ile ka utloa e nts’osa. E kare ha a l’o araba litaba tse sensetive joalo ka tsena a ka ea le lawyer to address such issues ka tone ea diplomatic.
Ha ke nahana hore na ba bo rona ba bangata joang linaheng tse ling! Ke utloa ke ts’oha. E be UNHCR (le lefats’e) li tla re nka re le batho ba joang tabeng ee ka batho ba bona!
Comment by kompi on 16 August 2012:
There is no justification for police commissioner to defy a court order whatsoever. Kizito is not fit to be a comissioner if he doesn’t know the meaning of the court order. to him it is just another piece of paper. our police are a disgrace!!!
Lekoerekoere lena lona………ekare le kahla la fela lesotho mona by any means.mmmoho le ba mo potileng, ke lehlabaphieo.
Comment by Motpo on 16 August 2012:
Heele, la emella le Ethiopia la batho ka baselless things, batho ba bolaya batho mona le thotse.
Comment by Lintle on 16 August 2012:
It only happens in Lesotho moo a high ranking office e qoswang for setlokotsebe sa migran. Batho ba reng UN UN ha ke utlwe na UN ena e tlabe batlang tabeng tsa monna enwa empa rona mona moo re leng limigrants esa re thuse
Comment by Two shorts on 16 August 2012:
Halala sepolesa sa lapa la mhlakaza 0.M.I . Kore ketso tsena tsa Mhlakaza ke tsa Morai at her best. Mona naha ha ea bolokeha tla Mhlakaza’s family grim.
Comment by Stebo on 16 August 2012:
Butleng pele ka majoe. Le bolela hore akhente e Kaalo ka Ntsane a ka letsetsa Commissioner in the presence of the suspect? Hona ha a re a utloa ha Commissioner a re a se lokolloe a utloa joang? Kapa o tla re ntsane o ne a beile phone on a loud speaker? For what good reason would a policeman; and a lawyer for that matter do that? Che mona teng re etsoa bana, and ‘na nkeke ka lumela. Ak’u baleng affidavit eo ea hae hape moo e quotiloeng tle le utloe. Joale akhete o ile court a batla court order and a e fuoa hobane ho thoe the arrest and continued detention was unlawful akere? Bala quotation moo ho thoeng akhente o mo batla ho mapolesa moo a tsebang a le in their ‘lawful custody’. Kapa ke balile lipakeng tsa mela baheso? If not, who is fooling who here?
Point of interest, doesn’t our CP&E provide for search without warrant? Ke bona eka re iketsa armchair critics and thats where our problem lie. I bet there is a very different story from the police side. And ha u shebeletse bolo ho bobebe ho bona bolehe ba ea ntseng a bapala. Most of us simply assume hore mapolesa a tsoha hoseng feela a futuha. Hona joale most of us say ba ise nyeoe khotla. I guess we think it is simple as that. Nahana feela if they are still waiting for whatever results from South Africa as they rely heavily on them and on the other hand they are faced with these sky-rocketing piles of cases to deal with. Lets us give them resources and only then we can blame them.
Comment by Stebo on 16 August 2012:
Meant unlawful.
Comment by lonele on 17 August 2012:
If Asemie is accused of human trafficing, then, let justice be done on him; and if found guilty, he should be given a sentence that any Mosotho could have been given had he committed a similar crime. Deporting him, as part of a sentence, would render us xenophobic, and I’ll NEVER take kind to xenophobia, most particularly to a fellow Africans. Please folks, let’s promote unity and oneness as Africans..
Comment by semenekane on 17 August 2012:
@ Limeme
Chehe! Oa tla oa ikhaha ‘nake feela u bua litaba tsa bohlokoa. I support ur Idea 100% feela ‘nete ke hore Bro Kitizo is incompetent and he is under performing hence why I strongly recommend him to be demoted.
Comment by Mathando on 17 August 2012:
Unlawfull Lesotho passport holders are in 4high jump,Im telling u de truth
Comment by Mofolo on 17 August 2012:
Mhlakaza ke stababa lona ha hona mohlang lona ha hona le ka mohla le o mong taba tsa ha li ka phethahalang ha ho sebetsanoa le banna ba batle joalo ka Eyob.
Comment by Young on 17 August 2012:
@stebo…what’s CP&E?
Comment by POLO on 17 August 2012:
Feela ke makalla Interim Court Order ea Justice Mahase moo a reng Eyob a hlapants’oe e moahi oa Lesotho nakong ea beke tse peli. Kheleeeee!
Ka ‘nete le haeba Justice Mahase o ntse a koatetse sepolesa ka ho mo secha mohla monenee, a ke ke be a a fana taelo ea hore motho a hlapants’oe ka nkane.
Ha ke makale ha sena se etsahala hobane Eyob o fana ka masibahali a limpshe. Joale e ka ‘na eaba Justice Mahase o se qothetsoe. Sebele ruri, ha re ke re shebeng Interim Court Order tsa Justice Mahase tseo a li entseng ho tloha 2007, they are really questionable!
Re ea tseba hore Caswel Tlali ke e mong oa batho ba PAYROL ea Eyob, ke ka hona a phatlalatsang lintso tse makatsanang tjena. Ho tla joang hore litabeng tse kaofela e be Caswel o sitoa ho bua Commissioner of Police ka sepheo sa ho netefatsa litaba tsee tsa a lingotseng.
Caswel, watch out!
Comment by Two Shorts on 17 August 2012:
Caswel Tlali le Sebono Moea ba ‘methe mono moo ba teng. Feela thahasello ea Moafrika ka ramainmoane le bo Cawell ke efeng tabeng tse tsa motho. Ka moruti Lekhoaba ba ile batho ba re tu! Kapa ke hoba ena a ne a sa kokote ka the money in the bank ea wrestling (WWW smack down).Feela le se sihi morao bolehe ba Mhlakaza hle banna. Polo,Mofolo, Semanakane and others buang banna le reng ka taba tsee?
Comment by sefaha on 17 August 2012:
mahae ha se eloa oa hore a searchoe ke mapolesa?
Comment by Molotoane on 17 August 2012:
Mhlakaza, re ne re u bolelle hore lipele-li na le baji. U behelletse barutehi morao u nyolla mosali oa hau fela e le junior a na le li senior tsa hae. Haeba u monyolletse ka mangolo, ha u nyolle ba bang keng ba ntseng ba kamme ho u feta ba na le Masters? Ho na le moshana e mong oa Qacha koana mono eo u ‘mehileng rifi hobane u mo tsohile ea nang le Masters, Honours and degree. Hoja ua inahana buti ke bona e ka u tlo se furalla sepolesa sena joale kotsi ke hore le boruting koana ha ba no u amohela kaha he u likaputu.
Comment by semenekane on 18 August 2012:
@ Lonele
Asemie is just a piece of rubbish n he must be deported with immediate effect. Why is this bloody Asemie coercing government through courts of law to grand him Lesotho citizenship?
What is it that he is running away from his own country?. Ayob n Maseforo Mahase go hang. Asemie seems to have a swollen mind and he does not respect the law of this country. Hxa!
Comment by Taota Ramaema on 19 August 2012:
Hee ho thata Lesotho mona. Molotoane ebe moshana oa Qacha oa li masters ha se eloa eao Mhlakaza lilemong tsa khale koaa a kileng a mo nkela kharebe ea hae eare ha moruti are o ilo mo hlohonolofatsa ka bedroom eaba mohlankana eo (Oa lepolesa) o oa fihla a fihla a chopolisa moruti aba a mo supa ka sethunya bosiu boo kaofela ? O na tlo lopolloa ke ofisiri e ng’oe e neng e okametse transport, ho le hobe mamina a kopane le likhapha. Le bona eka a ka promota mohlankana eo joang Mhlakaza baheso ?
Comment by watchdog4 on 19 August 2012:
I doubt wheather Mhlakaza was a right choice of the coalition govt or not.
Comment by Phakoana on 20 August 2012:
Ke papali feela ntho e entsoeng naheng ena ka KZ e le COMPOL.
Comment by Lefefooane on 20 August 2012:
No police commissioner will get arrested. The Lesotho Times edotor must not even waste his time fanatasising about a police commissioner being arrested especially if the criminal at the center of the the conrtroversy is a foreigner. Ekaba re naha ea bosatane if we can arrest our police commissiner for trying to deport an illegal Ethiopian who illegally got our passport. In fact that Ethiopian must bring back that illegally gotten passport and go back to Ethiopia. We have no business arresting our compol. Even that poor judged who issued such a ruling risked her order being undermined because I can assure you it will not happen. Hantle o etse joanag na ena eo Masforo? E ne ere judge Steyn a mollela. Nxa. She is a disgrace to Lesotho juduiaciary.
Comment by Lefefooane on 20 August 2012:
I call on the minister of Passports Mr. Joang Molapo to cancel this passport that this illegal corrupt human trafficker got. That passport should not be allowed to operate. It is fraudulent passport. Again, a fraudulent passport does not make one a citizen of another country. Even that passport can be revoked by the King or minister of Home affairs if the bearer seems/appears to have got that passport fraudulently. Whether Maseforo Mahase likes or not, that Ethiopian bustard must be deported or be demoted to refugee status. Re ka ba naha e makatsang whereby a refugee later on is given citizenship. After all I fail to understand why the man can fly from as far as Ethiopia to seek refuge in Lesotho and later on that “refugee” is declared a citizen by some corrupt home affairs official. No ways.
Comment by maincampus on 20 August 2012:
i didnt know basotho could be this ignorant, xenophobic and myopic. But come to SA and see them dotted all over the place. Le batlang joale SA???
Comment by Lefefooane on 21 August 2012:
@Sbegdene, yes there are hundreds of Baostho in other countries. However they are there legally. If not then such governments have every right to deport them. How many times have our people being deported from south africa? How many times? So why should we care about some Ethiopian whom we do not know what he is doing here. He must go back home or maybe to Eritrea or somalia or Uganda. Nxa, ke tla lekeha kea bona eh. We have serious issues we should be discussing other than discissing an Etiopian eunuch.
Comment by Tlhalefo on 21 August 2012:
Ke rata hotseba hore hobaneng lesothotimes le nka nako e telele ho update website ea bona. Rona ba bang reka ntle ho naha
Comment by Gaddafi on 22 August 2012:
This evil man called Asemie must be deported back to his country Ethiopia. Asemie is a rebel in this country. We don’t want any refugees becoming rebellious against our authorities. Asemie must be taken back to his country. We are getting tired of these stubborn African refugees in our country. Asemie must show his difficult attitude in his own country not in our country. We have never go and cause any trouble in Ethiopia, so why should this stubborn Ethiopian man came into Lesotho just to cause trouble and undermine our authorities here? We don’t want any stubborn refugees like Asemie and that DRC man in this country. We have never travelled to their countries just to cause trouble and accuse their authorities there. These African refugees, if they really are, must respect our country and our authorities and abide by the laws of this country.
This foolish Asemie has accused police, NSS, Commissioner for refugees and Home Affairs senior officials, it seems this bad man wants to stay and granted citizenship by force in this country, its ridiculous. How does he think he would survive in this country where he doesn’t respect anyone that is supposed to pprotect his civil rights in this country? He is so foolish. I hate this man, he must leave this country back to his country of origin. He came into hiding in Lesotho because he was difficult in his country. He was disrespecting his authorities, the same behaviour he is showing us here in Lesotho. Asemie is now causing troubles in our country in a way that stupid Basotho begin fighting each other because of this foolish and stubborn refugee residing by force in our country. Mhlakaza has done well to keep that criminal in custody. It is true that makoerekoere are involved in human trafficking in this country. Why didn’t he trafficked that Pakistanis and North Africans into Ethiopia his original country? He trafficked foreigners into our country because he undermines the laws of Lesotho. So, Basotho, stop fighting each other over the issue of that bad Ethiopian man. Deport him! Release Mhlakaza as he is innocent. We don’t need foreign criminals in our country. Basotho, stop being foolish. Thats the problem with Lesotho’s law system. These Basotho judges always stand for foreign criminals and ignore to help fellow citizens. Why is Mahase protecting this Ethiopian criminal? Mahase must be investigated over this Asemie issue.
Comment by Gaddafi on 22 August 2012:
@7noto
Haeba Mhlakaza o kene ka paqama mona naheng ea habo, le uena u tlameha u kene ka paqama, ke ka hona u tsebang ho potela batho ba bang. U e mong oa Basotho ba liphoqo ba loants’ang basotho ba bang ka baka la le-Ethiopia le nkhang seroroana. U utloile bohloko tjee kapa u nyatsi ea mo-Ethiopia eo Mosotho ea sa tlalang?
Comment by Gaddafi on 22 August 2012:
@Moeletsi
Ma-refugee a tellang oona ha a tsoe Lesotho mona. Ha re na taba le eona UNHCR eno ea hau, hase molingoana oa Lesotho. Re keke ra lumela hore makoerekoere a tlo re tella naheng ea rona ebe re koenyeletsa mathe le mali moo re reng re ts’aba banna ba bang ba bo UNHCR. Haeba UNHCR eo ea hau ke molingoana oa linaha tsa Africa, akure e qale ka ho qabana le South Africa pele eo eona phatlalatsa fela e hloileng melata ea Africa ebile tsona linaha tseo tsa Europe le America li tseba hantle. Asemie o tlameha ho tebeloa a khutlele ha habo koana.
O phaphathehisitsoe ke ho tella naheng ea habo koana. Akhente ea Mhlakaza e tlameha hore e loane ka thata le li-judge tsa Lesotho tse buellang bobolu ba makoerekoere naheng ena, fela ba sa ahlolele Basotho ka toka makhotleng moo ha likoeta li ba senyelitse. Joale Basotho ba senang kelello ba potela Mhlakaza ka hore o incompetent ha a ts’oere lekoerekoere la sekoeta le tellang Lesotho mona. Phoooo! Basotho ba senang kelello, le etsoa ke hona hobane le hloeane?
Comment by leratobaquena on 22 August 2012:
Shutup @Gaddafi(Lerotholi)Basotho knows it is you Lerotholi who is allways barking too much when refugee issues are raised.Becouse you are the drop out at the first year from NUL and it will not be easy for you to understand law and human rights.You bastared your day is finished as a commisioner of refugee.You are not deserved to be at that possition.
Comment by Lefefooane on 22 August 2012:
@Gaddafi, I very much share your sentiments. Booohllle ba keneng ka paqama ba lokela ho khutlela mahahabo bona. E kampa ea ba ke pheta lifela. Ke hlahetse Lesotho mona me ha hona naha engoe eo ke nang le tokelo ea ho tseka ntle le Lesotho. Motho ha a hlahetse Ethiopia ha a tsamae a ea hahabo ke eng a tlohela ho re tena.
Whoever the judge misled some poor souls into thinking that one day the commissioner of police would be arrested I would only say she exposed herself because no one will execute that her order. Hence no one will take that poor judge seriously because it seems she does not deserve to be taken seriously. She is such a joke to the legal fraternity and Basotho as whole. Why would we arrest our COMPOL in a bid to save some illegal Ethiopian/Eritrean migrant? Ke mang ngoana Mosotho wea ka tsoarang mookameli oa sepolesa sa habo molemong feela oa ho tsireletsa molata. Kapa banna bo Maseforo ha ba phele hanhtle. Isn’t this Maseforo Mahase the same judge whom one white South African judge Steyn questioned her credibility? If so, the Steyn was correct. Something is wrong with the judge.
Comment by Koalepe on 22 August 2012:
Tsamaea Litjobo,haeno
Comment by polok on 16 November 2012:
Asme is real bustred . He trafiking 14000 people. Onley i know. Because we send this people to him from bangladesh. Government must be hang up asme.