The Guptas have been fired as special advisers to the prime minister of Lesotho, and their diplomatic passports have been revoked.
Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has removed the politically connected Atul Gupta and his nephew Essa Omar Aziz as his special advisers, and has cancelled the passports they obtained controversially last August.
His spokesperson, Motumi Ralejoe, told City Press that Mosisili had no use for them.
“The prime minster said he doesn’t need them as advisers. The home affairs minister was left with no option but to tell them that their services are no longer needed by the coalition government, and therefore they had to give back the diplomatic passports,” he said…
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