In the spotlight: the government of the Sacred Union
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Sama Lukonde Kyenge, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
© Youtube channel screenshot Sama Lukonde
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
7 mins
Publicity
Soon the government of the Sacred Union, the executive which will be headed by Sama Lukonde to replace the team of Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, the outgoing Prime Minister.
Kinshasa newspapers focused on this highly anticipated event.
"
Sama Lukonde will be pascal
" headlines the newspaper
Le Soft International
.
For this periodical, Faced with the intoxication, Kitenge Yezu (the High Representative of the President of the Republic) rose to the front demanding the microphone at the very beginning of the week.
Sign, explains the newspaper, that the words of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Sama Lukonde Kyenge Thursday, March 18, 2021 at the end of his meeting with the President of the Republic, at the City of the African Union, had not deactivated pharmacies , a part of the opinion when the social networks expressed renunciation ... A mathematical communication, millimeter, sliced with a knife from the Oracle Organ as it is called in the inner circle, now installed in its role, comments Le Soft International before to venture further in the same columns: "
Some people logically bet on a paschal Sama Lukonde after conciliation meetings that have not stopped in recent days requiring very long hours.
".
The daily
Le Potentiel
, for its part, headlines: "
The unprecedented constraints delaying the exit of the Sama Lukonde government
".
According to this newspaper, Beyond speculation on the delay, it turns out that several obstacles undermined the publication of the team to replace that fallen Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba.
From the relentless quest for ministerial positions of the actors of the Sacred Union of the Nation to the representativeness of women, through the criterion of solidarity for certain social strata, people living with disabilities and young people, be represented within the new government, are all parameters to manage at the probably imminent exit of the new national executive, argues
Le Potentiel
, a newspaper which has no doubts that there will be few elected out of the multitude of candidates.
Under the title "
Dirty times for major Carine Lokeso
",
Le Phare
, another daily, reports on the turnaround in the trial on the murder of pro-democracy activist Rossy Mukendi, shot dead in February 2018 in the entrance to the church of Saint Clément de Lemba, in Kinshasa.
It was during a demonstration called by the Lay Coordinating Committee to demand the holding of the elections.
Deputy superior commissioner of the Congolese national police, Carine Lokesso has been referred since Thursday April 1 to the military garrison court of Matete to answer for two offenses, namely violations of instructions and the murder of Rossy Mukendi Tshimanga.
First called as a witness, Major Carine Lokeso was transformed into an accused, prosecuted for murder in criminal participation with Brigadier Tokis Nkombo who was under his orders, specifies the newspaper
Le Phare
.
Finally, the newspaper La République announces the dismissal of the governor of the province of Kasai Oriental.
Jean Maweja Muteba, who is a member of the UDPS, the presidential party, was accused of mismanagement, incompetence and of having created more than a hundred fictitious jobs in his cabinet, writes
La République
while specifying that out of 17 voters, 13 deputies voted in favor.
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