Former Lesotho deputy prime minister Mothetjoa Metsing confirms that he has fled to South Africa where he’s reported to be seeking political asylum.
On Thursday during an interview with the SABC’s Morning Live, Metsing confirmed that he has fled the country after receiving death threats.
Tensions have been building in Lesotho since the recent arrest of the former defence minister, Tseliso Mokhosi, over the killing of a policeman in 2016.
Metsing says he started receiving death threats immediately after the inauguration of the new government.
“I received some threats that there is a plot to have me killed, the plot was going to be executed in either me getting arrested and dying in police custody or by assassination.”
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– By SABC
