{"id":58557,"date":"2020-01-15T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58557"},"modified":"2020-01-15T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:13:20","slug":"murder-scandal-captivates-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58557","title":{"rendered":"Murder scandal captivates Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Murder-scandal-captivates-Lesotho-837493?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/764\/76474431.295.jpg\" alt=\"Lipolelo Thabane was going through a prolonged divorce at the time of her death\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Lipolelo Thabane was going through a prolonged divorce at the time of her death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MASERU, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Police in Lesotho, who are investigating the killing of the prime minister&#8217;s estranged wife in 2017, say they may ask international law enforcement agencies to help them track down the country\u2019s First Lady Maesaiah Thabane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is in connection with a case that has the people of Lesotho talking and has heightened speculation about the mysterious death of Lipolelo Thabane, the former first lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time there was no love lost between Lipolelo Thabane and Thabane\u2019s then-fianc\u00e9e, now wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both women claimed they were Lesotho\u2019s rightful first lady. In the end the courts ruled in Lipolelo Thabane\u2019s favour, saying until her divorce she should keep the title. <br><br>Maesaiah has not been charged, but police want to speak to her about Lipolelo&#8217;s killing, a government spokesman said.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lipolelo was shot dead outside her home near the capital, Maseru two days before Thabane was sworn in as prime minister of the mountain kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Lesotho-Prime-Minster-Thabane-s-wife-wanted-by-police-837766?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/939\/93960520.295.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Thomas Thabane (R) attended his inauguration with his current wife (AFP)\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and<\/em><\/strong> Maesaiah<strong><em>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister has also failed to answer police questions, he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thabane married Maesaiah three months after Lipolelo\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His party, the governing All Basotho Convention (ABC), wants him to resign after recent revelations by the police \u2013 contained in recently filed court documents &#8211; that he too is a person of interest in the murder case after a call was traced between his mobile number and a phone near the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first couple have not commented on the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, Thabane described the murder as a &#8220;senseless killing&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lipolelo Thabane was going through a prolonged divorce at the time of her death MASERU, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Police in Lesotho, who are investigating the killing of the prime minister&#8217;s estranged wife in 2017, say they may ask international law enforcement agencies to help them track down the country\u2019s First Lady Maesaiah Thabane. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}