Adv Motinyane says this in response to Messrs Metsing and Mochoboroane's latest attempts to postpone their Constitutional Court application to stop their treason trial.

The treason trial failed to take off in the High Court on 25 February 2020 after Messrs Metsing and Mochoboroane filed a Constitutional Court application for an order barring Adv Motinyane from prosecuting them because of the October 2018 agreement between the former Thabane-led government and the opposition halting any trials of politicians until after the completion of the reforms.

They now want the court to postpone that application to give the new government an opportunity to order Adv Motinyane to stop their trial in line with a recent directive by SADC to ex-Prime Minister Thabane.

In his court papers filed for the postponement of their constitutional case, Mr Mochoboroane says the government wants to consult before making a final decision on whether or not the treason trial must proceed.

The facilitator, as this court knows, acts for and on behalf of SADC and very recently wrote to the government of Lesotho... decrying the fact that the treason charges had been preferred against us...

"We have been legally advised and verily believe that the agreement in which clause 10 appears constitutes an international obligation of Lesotho to carry out the decisions of SADC and that Lesotho cannot invoke its own municipal law to avoid its international obligations," Mr Mochoboroane states.

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