{"id":214853,"date":"2025-11-25T21:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sakoane-tears-into-dceo\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:31:27","slug":"lesotho-sakoane-tears-into-dceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sakoane-tears-into-dceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Sakoane Tears Into Dceo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><strong>C<\/strong>HIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has sharply criticised the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) for allegedly withholding a search-and-seizure warrant after confiscating a vehicle belonging to former WILSA Programmes Director, Mamosa Mohlabula-Nokana, which she is still paying for and had leased to the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">This follows revelations in the High Court this week that the DCEO had obtained an <em>ex parte<\/em> (unopposed) warrant from the Magistrate Court to seize Advocate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210201.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>CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has sharply criticised the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) for allegedly withholding a search-and-seizure warrant after confiscating a vehicle belonging to former WILSA Programmes Director, Mamosa Mohlabula-Nokana, which she is still paying for and had leased to the Ministry of Education. This follows revelations in the High Court this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214854,"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":[258,256,13434,4717,1407,257,36804,254,23916],"class_list":["post-214853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dceo","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sakoane","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tears"],"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\/214853","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=214853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}