{"id":200194,"date":"2025-06-15T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pac-to-resume-investigations-into-corruption-at-lec\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:58:56","slug":"lesotho-pac-to-resume-investigations-into-corruption-at-lec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pac-to-resume-investigations-into-corruption-at-lec\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: PAC to Resume Investigations Into Corruption At LEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em><em>&#8211;Following legal controversy<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">IN ITS spirited resolve to combat alleged corruption at the Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC), the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is set to resume its inquiry of the state owned utility next Monday, following a favourable ruling from Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The PAC, led by Chairperson Machabana Lemphane-Letsie, said it was undeterred by recent legal challenges posed by the LEC board of directors, which had sought to halt the investigation claiming it exceeded&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120633.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>&#8211;Following legal controversy IN ITS spirited resolve to combat alleged corruption at the Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC), the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is set to resume its inquiry of the state owned utility next Monday, following a favourable ruling from Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane. The PAC, led by Chairperson Machabana Lemphane-Letsie, said it was undeterred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,4723,20712,13476,4717,1407,257,18770,7983,254],"class_list":["post-200194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-investigations","tag-lec","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-pac","tag-resume","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/200194","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=200194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}