The front page of the press this week in Kinshasa

In the spotlight: the recovery of looted state real estate

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Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe.

Thomas Nicolon

By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda

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Among the subjects evoked in the newspapers this week, the recovery of the real estate of the State looted under various regimes.

An operation which must continue, according to the daily newspaper

L'Avenir

which titles: “Muabilu persists and signs!

»

"

Despite the pressures

" , we can read in this newspaper,

the Minister of State in charge of Town Planning and Housing is determined to continue the operation of recovery of all the heritage belonging to the private domain of the despoiled State, regardless of the rank and level of the despoilers.

 According to the tabloid,

it is a patriotic commitment to materialize the electoral promise of President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.

»

According to

L'Avenir,

 "

the trade union delegation of the Commercial Company of Transport and Ports

(formerly ONATRA)

recalled this promise and requested the involvement of Minister Pius Muabilu for the recovery of all the houses of this company in the portfolio of state that were confiscated by private parties under previous regimes.

Set up since May 2021, the commission responsible for identifying houses, apartments, premises and other state property or funds is hard at work throughout the country

, ”reveals the newspaper

L’Avenir.

In the bi-weekly

Le Maximum

: “Soaring prices, life is still expensive, despite the forfeiture of Kalumba” (the Minister of Economy recently ousted by the National Assembly).

For this newspaper, "

it will be difficult to explain that the State budget has been doubled at the rate of the increase in revenue caused by the fear of the gendarme inspired by the IGF, and that at the same time the prices are only flying away while strikes become widespread and certain state clerks such as deputies and provincial ministers have several months of salary arrears

, can we read in the newspaper

Le Maximum

which continues: "

at the very least, in a tangible effort to control the prices of basic necessities, the government must reveal the causes of the overheating observed on the market before considering shock therapy.

»

Conclusion of the newspaper, which quotes specialists in economics: “

Price questions are never settled by way of decree and order.

These are questions that obey market forces, in this case the law of supply and demand

”.

Muyaya, Kazadi and Budimbu play appeasement.

It is in the tri-weekly

Africanews

which evokes the briefing which was made by the three members of the government on the shortage of fuel in Kinshasa, from Sunday to Tuesday.

This shortage

, reports the newspaper,

has had the harmful effect of generalized overheating in the field of public transport.

For Patrick Muyaya

(the government spokesman),

Didier Bidimbu

(the Minister of Hydrocarbons)

and Nicolas Kazadi

(the Minister of Finance), explains this tri-weekly,

guaranteed that there is no shortage of fuel and that strategies are in place to avoid the effects of the crisis.

There's no reason to panic,

reassures

Africanews,

the situation is under control.

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