According to a report in the Sunday Express of 16 January 2011, Mosisili filed papers with the high court claiming the Catholic newspaper made damaging allegations against him during or about the month of October 2010.
Mosisili claims the defendants, the papers editor, Mazenod Printing Works and the Oblate Congregation wrongfully, unlawfully and with intent to defame the plaintiff, published or caused to be published several defamatory allegations about the plaintiff.
Mosisilis case is in reference to a newspapers column entitled, Mahlomola le Sopede, written in Sesotho, which alleged his office had embezzled M8 million that his office received in the 2005/06 fiscal year and that it was understood to mean that he is a thief who had participated and had taken a lead in an alleged embezzlement of public funds and that he is not worthy of public office he holds and has perverse and degenerated understanding of moral values.
He further argues that those allegations were read by the general public to mean that he is corrupt, untruthful, dishonest and debased both as a person and as the Prime Minister of Lesotho and the first minister of His Majestys cabinet.
This is not the first time the Lesotho Prime Minister has sued a newspaper in Lesotho. In 2008, he was awarded M50 000 in the case in which he had sued the now defunct newspaper, The Mirror, for defamation.
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