In the spotlight: President Tshisekedi's visit to the five provinces of Grand Kasai

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The Congolese president to Félix Tshisekedi, May 18, 2021. AP - Ludovic Marin

By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda

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The newspapers this week were interested in following the tour of the President of the Republic in the five provinces of Grand Kasai.

Journey that began on Friday, December 24, 2021 in Kasai Oriental and ended on Thursday, January 6, 2022 in the province of Sankuru.

Wrath of the Kasaians

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This, according to the newspaper

, is what the Kasaians told the head of state.

According to this daily, in all the capitals of the five provinces resulting from the dismemberment of this space in the center of the country, the President of the Republic spoke with the population.

The demand made unanimously and with insistence on the guarantor of the nation, writes the Kinshasa newspaper, shows that the people have reached maturity and that they now exercise citizen control over the rulers and their collaborators.

" 

", concludes the newspaper.

For its part, the daily

affirms: "

.

For the newspaper, the President of the Republic, like a general practitioner, should not be satisfied with the diagnosis made.

But he will have to prescribe specific products in emergency mode, to cure the patient.

This is mainly, explains

the construction of basic infrastructure.

Will the president keep his promises?

" 

This is the title of the editorial in the tri-weekly

. Elected in 2018 and invested fifth president of the DRC on January 24, 2019, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi had since not set foot in the five provinces of Grand Kasai, recalls the editorialist who adds that the successor of Joseph Kabila has chosen the first quarter of this year to get there. At the end of his tour in this space, notes the colleague of

, some wonder if the Head of State will materialize the promises made here and there for the umpteenth time to the populations of Greater Kasai.

In connection with the same tour, the newspaper

announces: “

”.

He was seen with Senator Victorine Lwese at the audience granted to parliamentarians by the Head of State on Monday July 3 in Tshikapa.

A senior executive of Joseph Kabila's PPRD, he would have confirmed his willingness to join the platform initiated by the President of the Republic.

And thus join Lambert Mende, Théophile Mbemba, and Adolphe Lumanu.

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