{"id":217329,"date":"2025-12-19T22:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-govts-skewed-priorities-iec-ordered-to-abandon-m77m-building-over-state-house-security-fears\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:34:30","slug":"lesotho-govts-skewed-priorities-iec-ordered-to-abandon-m77m-building-over-state-house-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-govts-skewed-priorities-iec-ordered-to-abandon-m77m-building-over-state-house-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Govt&#8217;s Skewed Priorities &#8211; IEC Ordered to Abandon M77m Building Over State House &#8216;Security Fears&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>Govt wants IEC to sell property for M25m Masowe site<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Prime Minister uneasy with tall building near State House<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>IEC says it&#8217;s going nowhere<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Mohloai Mpesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\"><strong>I<\/strong>N a move that has stunned governance observers and raised fresh questions about Lesotho&#8217;s spending priorities, the government has ordered the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to <strong>sell its newly-acquired M77 million office building<\/strong> and relocate to a <strong>vacant, undeveloped site<\/strong> in Masowe worth M25.5 million &#8212; all because the current structure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190503.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>Govt wants IEC to sell property for M25m Masowe site Prime Minister uneasy with tall building near State House IEC says it&#8217;s going nowhere Mohloai Mpesi IN a move that has stunned governance observers and raised fresh questions about Lesotho&#8217;s spending priorities, the government has ordered the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to sell its newly-acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217330,"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":[9192,258,256,6797,5140,9837,5110,10627,4717,1407,53175,257,12270,12200,4586,44050,254,6017],"class_list":["post-217329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-abandon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-building","tag-fears","tag-govts","tag-house","tag-iec","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m77m","tag-news","tag-ordered","tag-priorities","tag-security","tag-skewed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/217329","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=217329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}