In the headlines: the tragic disappearance of deputy Lokondo Henri Thomas
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The Palais des Peuples, Kinshasa.
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By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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All the Kinshasa press this week, headlined on the disappearance Wednesday, in South Africa, of Lokondo Henri Thomas ... National deputy after having sat in the senate and in the government, former ambassador also.
"
The political class salutes a
" committed and brilliant "man," writes the tri-weekly
AfricaNews
on the front page
.
For this newspaper, Those who worked with him, in particular national deputies and senators regret the departure of a seasoned expert in parliamentary matters.
Freedom has lost a great defender, the National Assembly, one of its best representatives, our democracy, one of its intelligent voices, comments the national deputy Delly Sesanga, relayed by
AfricaNews
.
"
Henri Thomas Lokondo poisoned: why?
This is the headline in the daily
Le Phare
which reveals the content of the health bulletin established at the Kinshasa medical center before the deputy was evacuated abroad.
He was infected with Covid-19, according to the document referred to in this newspaper.
We could have stopped there and considered that this parliamentarian suffered a natural death, we can read in
Le Phare
.
Alas, continues the daily, in circles close to his family as in political salons, we confirm the thesis of poisoning.
It is hard to believe that such a frank and open politician, always in search of the truth in political debates, could have comforted political enemies within or outside the People's Palace, writes again the newspaper which urges a thorough investigation to: either remove the doubt from the spirits, or confirm the thesis of poisoning.
And on the front page of
Le Potentiel
, another daily, “
Kalev Mutond wanted by justice
”.
The former head of intelligence has since Thursday been the subject of a search notice launched because he did not respond to two invitations issued by the courts.
In case of discovery, writes the newspaper, the prosecutor asks the police to apprehend him and send him under good escort to the public prosecutor's office near the Court of Appeal of Gombe.
Kalev Mutondo is being prosecuted for arbitrary arrests and illegal detention with bodily torture and extortion, recalls the daily before this question: “
What is he reproaching himself before even having been heard?
"
The potential
, based on the statements of former super spy, reveals that the residence it was raided around 5 hours a heavily armed police.
In
the Maximum
finally, about food security, the newspaper headline: Félix Tshisekedi comforts fishermen Pool Malebo ... The president conferred with the fishermen last Sunday around their activities are disrupted for several years.
According to the bi-weekly, Food security issues feature high on the agenda of the Head of State.
In a country where freshwater fishery resources populate the Congo River and the many lakes and marshes, the DRC continues to import tonnes of fish each year, notes Le Maximum, which speaks of a paradox that the president must face. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi ..
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