In the News: the scandal… Congo Hold Up
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Kamanda Wa Kamanda Muzembe © Thomas Nicolon
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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A scandal on the front page of all the country's newspapers… Congo Hold Up: towards the trial of Kabila and others? asks the daily
Le Phare
. This newspaper affirms that "
the government has already given the green light to justice to do this
". Patrick Muyaya, the government spokesperson quoted by
Le Phare
said that “
the Congolese authorities were very concerned by the revelations of a group of media and international NGOs about the embezzlement of more than 138 million US dollars between 2013 and 2018
”, charged-according to the newspaper-the former head of state, Joseph Kabila and members of his biological and political family. "
The challenge to be taken up by the Congolese justice,
explains the newspaper
Le Phare, is to give proof to all that there really is neither small nor large citizen in the Democratic Republic of Congo
”.
On this same scandal of Congo Hold Up, the tri-weekly
Africanews
headlines:
"A forgery attributed to Patrice Kitebi concerning the part of 43 million US dollars withdrawn by the BGFI from the account of the Central Bank of Congo and which would have benefited the company EGAL. The letter presented as having been written by the former Minister for Finance is unsealed despite a number indicator crudely written by hand ”
, we can read in this newspaper. "
The BCC would have acted unilaterally through its disbursement instructions of November 29, 2013
, writes
Africanews
".
Favorite food: hold up. Under this title, the columnist of the daily
Forum des As
recalls the hold-ups known in the history of the country since independence. For the colleague, we thus find a hold up braised with Gécamines, hold up grilled with Miba, old up with Central Bank sauce served with BGFI Bank, hold up heated with retro commissions… From this sub-recipe, he observes. -it, appetizers such as parliamentary hold-ups or even Ceni office hold-ups were born! Like what, adds the columnist of
Forum des As
, “
Congo Hold Up is comparable to elephant meat. There is something for everyone
. And to conclude:
Enough to furnish ad vitam aeternam the media programs involved in this cutthroat investigation.
It remains to be seen whether the sleuths of the Kabila clan are, for the moment, ready to vary their menu
”.
the IGF on the trail of mining fraudsters
Another headline, in the daily
Le Potentiel
, on the instructions of the Head of State, “
The IGF on the heels of mining fraudsters.
No more tolerance, the period of the carrot is over, the use of the stick is now required to restore order in the mining resources sector in the DRC, ”
says
Le Potentiel,
which refers to the detailed report on illegal exploitation of mineral resources in the country.
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