{"id":174829,"date":"2024-06-19T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-unban-famo-groups-kabi\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:10:10","slug":"lesotho-unban-famo-groups-kabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-unban-famo-groups-kabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: &#8216;Unban Famo Groups&#8217; &#8211; Kabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em><em>&#8230;but gvt berates ABC leader for consorting with the gangs<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Nkaku Kabi, wants the government to immediately reverse its ban of <em>famo<\/em> groups, accused of fuelling spiralling violent crime across Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">But the government has hit back at Mr Kabi, accusing him of wanting the criminal gangs to be left unchecked because they bankroll his political party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Government spokesman, Thabo Sekonyela, said Mr Kabi must be ashamed of himself for consorting with the criminal&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406180362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but gvt berates ABC leader for consorting with the gangs ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Nkaku Kabi, wants the government to immediately reverse its ban of famo groups, accused of fuelling spiralling violent crime across Lesotho. But the government has hit back at Mr Kabi, accusing him of wanting the criminal gangs to be left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,14631,9835,29380,4717,1407,257,254,48813],"class_list":["post-174829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-famo","tag-groups","tag-kabi","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unban"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}