In the spotlight: the arrest by the National Intelligence Agency of François Beya
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DRC, Kinshasa, view of the city in January 2019. (Illustrative photo) John Wessels/Bloomberg via Getty
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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The arrest by the National Intelligence Agency of François Beya, special adviser to President Tshisekedi on matters of security… This is the subject that predominated in the newspapers throughout the week.
72 hours later, the Presidency of the Republic comes out of its silence… the investigators have serious clues.
It's on the front page of Le Potentiel
newspaper
.
The Kinshasa daily, which ensures that the situation is under control, writes: "
And, contrary to speculation and other disinformation distilled on the networks and in certain media, there is nothing of a palace war or even less of tribal considerations. , clan or regional
”.
According to the colleagues of
Potential
, the spokesperson for the Head of State, Tharcisse Kasongo Mwema clearly underlined that this is a matter of State security, a matter of the exclusive competence of the National Intelligence Agency , said the spokesman for Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.
“
Finally, the president speaks!
headlines the tri-weekly
AfricaNews
.
And, this newspaper speaks of Lighting on the interpellation of the special adviser on Saturday February 5 by the ANR.
It is out of ignorance, writes the newspaper, that many wonder whether the ANR had the competence or not.
“
The CNS
, can we read in the tabloid,
is not a separate state service, it is a forum of which only the President of the Republic is the sole boss,
explains the newspaper again”.
And to continue,
The president's special security adviser is not the head of the security services, he is a member of the president's cabinet for which the chief of staff is responsible.
On the other hand, the ANR is an official intelligence service, with structures at all levels, ” reports the
AfricaNews
newspaper
.
For its part, the daily
Forum des As
, referring to a letter from the chief of staff, confirms the appointment of the interim to the post of special adviser to the Head of State in matters of security.
Jean-Claude Bukasa, in his fifties, is a computer, telematics and network professional who obtained his diplomas in Canada.
Also a veteran of national and external security, spotted for a long time by the Head of State who has always used it.
Another title.
In the bi-weekly
Le Maximum
, State of siege, the FARDC are increasing the number of arrests of collaborators.
As clashes between the Ugandan-Congolese coalition armed forces escalate in the neighboring province of Ituri, in North Kivu, in the Beni-Butembo region, it is the hunt for collaborators of the ADF rebels that rages , report the colleagues of this newspaper.
According to
the maximum
, an ADF fighter and two collaborators captured in the Graben forest, in the Bashu chiefdom, are being prosecuted before the Beni garrison court for participation in an insurrectionary movement and association of criminals.
23 ADF rebels were killed in clashes with the FARDC and AK-47 type weapons were recovered, adds the bi-weekly, quoting the spokesman for operations Sukola in this region of Beni-Butembo.
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