{"id":212081,"date":"2025-10-31T20:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-asset-recovery-unit-shut-down-after-implicating-top-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:31:53","slug":"lesothos-asset-recovery-unit-shut-down-after-implicating-top-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-asset-recovery-unit-shut-down-after-implicating-top-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho&#8217;s Asset Recovery Unit Shut Down After Implicating Top Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em> The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s asset recovery unit has been disbanded as &#8220;not properly gazetted&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The unit&#8217;s shut down comes a month after it revealed irregular land allocations to senior officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Nthomeng Majara, former ministers and judges.<\/li>\n<li>The unit also found 97 of 1,601 government plots were transferred to private individuals under suspicious circumstances, and only 987 of 1,579&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510310017.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>The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption Lesotho&#8217;s asset recovery unit has been disbanded as &#8220;not properly gazetted&#8221;. The unit&#8217;s shut down comes a month after it revealed irregular land allocations to senior officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Nthomeng Majara, former ministers and judges. The unit also found 97 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550667:bf485edb007c2a1af4732a3f4b42f250:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6396,39349,1407,9990,257,6651,9918,5161,254,7319,13013],"class_list":["post-212081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asset","tag-implicating","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-recovery","tag-shut","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-unit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550667:bf485edb007c2a1af4732a3f4b42f250:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212081","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=212081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}