{"id":210072,"date":"2025-10-16T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rift-at-the-lmps-top\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:58:50","slug":"lesotho-rift-at-the-lmps-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rift-at-the-lmps-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Rift At the LMPS Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>&#8230;as Mokete bounces back<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>&#8230;Matsoso &#8220;forced&#8221; to reinstate him<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Police\u00a0Commissioner, Advocate Borotho Matsoso&#8217;s spirited bid to oust one of his deputies, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Paseka Mokete, has hit a snag after he was &#8220;forced&#8221; to reinstate him as the Head of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">DCP Mokete was suspended on Monday morning by Advocate Matsoso, allegedly to protect himself (Matsoso) and his close allies from possible prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160576.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;as Mokete bounces back &#8230;Matsoso &#8220;forced&#8221; to reinstate him Police\u00a0Commissioner, Advocate Borotho Matsoso&#8217;s spirited bid to oust one of his deputies, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Paseka Mokete, has hit a snag after he was &#8220;forced&#8221; to reinstate him as the Head of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID). DCP Mokete was suspended on Monday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210073,"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":[258,256,4717,1407,3121,257,7891,254,7319],"class_list":["post-210072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lmps","tag-news","tag-rift","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"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\/210072","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=210072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}