Police in the mountain kingdom had said they couldn’t safeguard the premier who fled the country in fear of his life last Saturday.

The Lesotho military denies Thabane’s claim that they staged a coup.

Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s advisor Samonyane Ntsekele told reporters at lunchtime he was speaking from state house in Lesotho where the premier is safe.

He says they’d been escorted home by South African police adding thatLesotho police officers, who are not present on the streets of Maseru, mingled with their South African counterparts at the prime minister’s residence.

The SANDF denies its troops are involved in protecting Thabani  who’s called for the deploymentof a regional peacekeeping force in Lesotho.

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Sporadic gunfire has been heard in the capital Maseru and there have been power cuts compounding the tension.

Lesotho premier Thomas Thabane fled Lesotho on Saturday in fear of life because of an apparent coup.

He was persuaded to return by President Jacob Zuma after talks in Pretoria yesterday.

According to the deal brokered by Zuma, Thabane would go home and assemble parliament which has been suspended since June.

Thabane’s aide Samonyane Ntsekele says the prime minister’s security concerns have not been allayed and he’s still in Johannesburg.

Police in Maseru are strongly advising Thabane not to go home because they are unable to protect him.

The regional mediators have not complied with Thabane’s call for a SADC peacekeeping force to be deployed in Lesotho.

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Regional mediators will reinstall him in power after an apparent coup last Saturday.

Thomas Thabane fled Lesotho in fear of his life when the military surrounded his home in Maseru and attacked police headquarters.

His advisor Samonyane Ntsekele says the premier will be back in Lesotho today.

Thabane was in Pretoria yesterday where President Jacob Zuma and representatives of SADC brokered a deal to end the crisis.
The military deny their action amounts to a coup and the Lesotho Congress for Democracy, which is Thabane’s partner in a coalition government, denies trying to oust him.

As the prime minister moves to end the suspension
of parliament, SADC’s sending an observer team
to the mountain kingdom to monitor political, defence and security developments.

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