Maseru, Sep.23—– Mr. Qamako Mahao has on Monday told the High Court that the army stole some items belonging to his late younger brother Maaparankoe Mahao in 2015 after they allegedly killed him.
In his evidence as one of the state witnesses in a case in which some army members are charged with the murder of Maaparankoe, he stated that the army unlawfully took two cellphones and a gun from the deceased together with his spectacles. He testified that when the family demanded those items the whole army together with its then Commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, who is one of the accused in this matter, were hostile to them.
He stated that in 2015 following the death of the deceased, the family was given his clothes which were washed. He added that it was only in 2017 when some of the items comprising the two cellphones and the gun were handed over to the family by the army through the police. He however said the spectacles belonging to the deceased have not been recovered to date…
