Lesotho: ACP Mapola Fights Early Retirement

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Motlatsi Mapola has petitioned the High Court to stop Police Commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, from sending him on early retirement in March this year.

ACP Mapola was in March 2021 forced to go on terminal leave pending his retirement on 8 March 2023. He had accumulated 511 leave days.

Police says this is when he reaches the statutory retirement age of 55 years.

Although ACP Mapola does not dispute that he is due for retirement in March 2023, he argues that he…