{"id":217121,"date":"2025-12-18T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-missing-exhibit-guns-proof-yet-again-that-the-lmps-is-rotten-at-the-core\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:30:57","slug":"lesotho-missing-exhibit-guns-proof-yet-again-that-the-lmps-is-rotten-at-the-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-missing-exhibit-guns-proof-yet-again-that-the-lmps-is-rotten-at-the-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Missing Exhibit Guns &#8211; Proof &#8211; Yet Again &#8211; That the LMPS Is Rotten At the Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>S<\/em>uspicion that elements within the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) are working hand-in-glove with criminals has once again exploded into public view &#8212; this time in the High Court, where such rot has no place to hide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">This past week, High Court Judge Tseliso Mokoko was visibly enraged after <strong>three crucial exhibit firearms<\/strong>, used in the murder trial of radio personality Ralikonelo &#8220;Leqhashasha&#8221; Joki and two others, mysteriously vanished from police custody. When summoned to account, officers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180170.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>Suspicion that elements within the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) are working hand-in-glove with criminals has once again exploded into public view &#8212; this time in the High Court, where such rot has no place to hide. This past week, High Court Judge Tseliso Mokoko was visibly enraged after three crucial exhibit firearms, used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217122,"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":[258,256,10600,12216,2235,4717,1407,3121,6947,257,14498,31932,254],"class_list":["post-217121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-core","tag-exhibit","tag-guns","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lmps","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-proof","tag-rotten","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\/217121","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=217121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}