Lephoi Makara

"You will agree with this committee that currently, Lesotho does not have a clear financial system, and without that, we can never have a clean audit report."

"Also, the report issued by the ministry of finance last year that there was a missing M6.1 billion left Basotho with doubts. This kind of acts are a result of our ineffective financial system."

"Ms Lintle, there is no way you can say you don’t know about the meters worth M6 million from Landis and Gyr. I put it to you that you purchased meters worth M6 million which are not compatible and are not being used by LEC right now."

"I have many reasons for leaving RFP. There was a time when we snubbed the party and supported a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister. That was because most of the things we campaigned for and promised the people had not been implemented…We were never forgiven for that,” Mr Makara said, adding Mr Matekane’s government was “no longer fit for purpose."

"The other issue is the RFP leadership. It is bad. Our expectation was that the leadership would call us to hear our views. But that never took place. We were regarded as people who had their own agendas and interests."

"constituency relies on agriculture and rightfully we were expecting that once we take over the governance, we would turn Basotho’s fortunes around in that key sector. But we failed."

"We thought our concerns would be resolved in the party but since we were vocal, fighting for our people, we were neglected."