The front page of the press this week in Kinshasa
In the spotlight: the case of the embezzlement of 400,000 dollars by the Ministry of Primary Education
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Kamanda Wa Kamanda Muzembe © Thomas Nicolon
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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The case of the embezzlement of 400,000 US dollars by the Congolese Ministry of Primary Education made the front page of Le
Phare
.
The Kinshasa daily headline reads: "
Live ammunition shots between Tony Mwaba and Jules Alingete
".
According to this newspaper, After the sulphurous soap opera of 16 million American dollars intended for the bonuses of the organizers and correctors of the National Test of end of primary studies, which had seriously poisoned the relations between the two personalities last year, the war is open again between Tony Mwaba (Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education) and Jules Alingete, the head of the General Inspectorate of Finance.
This time, can we still read in
Le Phare
, the case revolves around a kitty of 400,000 US dollars which would have been released by the government for the organization, last February in Kinshasa, of the final phase of the pan-African inter-school football tournament.
And
Le Phare
observes: while the IGF accuses the cabinet of the ministry of having fiddled with the supporting documents - in other words the invoices - of the expenses incurred, the ministerial cabinet complains for its part of being the victim of a relentless the part of the General Inspectorate which passes for the sentinel of public funds.
The Guéguerre Jules Alingete-Tony Mwaba serves Fatshi
“
Going viral on social networks, the Jules Alingete-Tony Mwaba squabble serves Fatshi ”, headlines the
Forum des As
newspaper
.
For the newspaper, the squabble of the two personalities through the media crystallizes the attention of the public in the DRC.
“
History will remember,
underlines this daily,
that it is for the second time that Tony Mwaba and Jules Alingete put on a show in social networks.
Which,
notes
Forum des As
,
gives material to informed observers who wonder - with reason - on the question of whether the two relatives of the president (Tshisekedi) are not in the process of settling their account via the net
.
»
Humanitarian blackmail in Ituri
Another subject mentioned in the press: the state of siege in North Kivu and Ituri.
The bi-weekly
Le Maximum
talks about humanitarian blackmail.
This newspaper writes:
"The expression is strong but true, since it runs through the minds of many observers of the certainly commendable services of national and international NGOs in the field of military security operations in eastern DRC.
".
And to add: "
Lieutenant-General Johnny Luboya, military governor of Ituri province, took it out on Wednesday
last ".
This general officer, exasperated by what looks like cowardice, whose head of Doctors Without Borders denounced in very clear terms the closure of the projects (and therefore the withdrawal) of this international organization in Lizi and Mbambou in Ituri.
“
It's blackmail!
exclaimed this high-ranking FARDC officer who
“particularly deplores the publicity given by MSF to this information, which is likely to discourage the return of civilians to these localities taken over by the FARDC
”, reports the newspaper
Le Maximum.
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