{"id":200551,"date":"2025-06-20T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-four-cops-accused-in-famo-guns-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:10:26","slug":"lesotho-four-cops-accused-in-famo-guns-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-four-cops-accused-in-famo-guns-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Four Cops Accused in Famo Guns Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">FOUR members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) have been charged for allegedly facilitating the illegal acquisition of firearms by <em>famo<\/em> gangsters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The officers are accused of manipulating the LMPS&#8217;s firearms licensing system by falsifying official documents to enable suspected gangsters to purchase firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The quartet of Rant\u0161o Makhakhe (48) from Qoaling Police Station, Reekelitsoe Motoena (32) of SOU, Mashalane Tsita (34) from Pitso Ground and Pule Akhente (33) of Maseru Central&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506190030.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>FOUR members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) have been charged for allegedly facilitating the illegal acquisition of firearms by famo gangsters. The officers are accused of manipulating the LMPS&#8217;s firearms licensing system by falsifying official documents to enable suspected gangsters to purchase firearms. The quartet of Rant\u0161o Makhakhe (48) from Qoaling Police Station, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200552,"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":[7083,258,256,6815,14631,2235,4717,1407,257,11079,254],"class_list":["post-200551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cops","tag-famo","tag-guns","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-scheme","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\/200551","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=200551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}