Lesotho: PM Thabane asked to resign over wife’s murder

Thomas Thabane has been the prime minister of Lesotho since 2017

Thomas Thabane, prime minister of Lesotho

MASERU, Jan 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The ruling ABC party in Lesotho has asked Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to resign over allegations that he was involved in the murder of his estranged wife two years ago.

The allegations were made by Lesotho’s police commissioner Holomo Molibeli in court documents this week.

The prime minister suspended the commissioner in what the ABC’s deputy leader Nqosa Mahao described as “an attempt to defeat the ends of justice”.

Lipolelo Thabane was shot dead while travelling home with a friend days before her husband was sworn in.

Thabane has not responded to the allegation. — NNN-AGENCIES

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