DRC: Jean-Marc Kabund resigns from the vice-presidency of the National Assembly

Jean-Marc Kabund (right), January 20, 2019 (illustrative image).

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A surprise resignation this Friday in the DRC: Jean-Marc Kabund, leader of the presidential party (UDPS), a figure close to the power in place, announced his resignation from the vice-presidency of the National Assembly.

A position he held again for about a year.

It was he himself who announced it on Twitter after his residence was stormed by elements of the Republican Guard on the night of January 12 to 13.

An incident caused by a traffic offence.

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa

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Pascal Mulegwa

It is a video dating from Tuesday which caused indignation on social networks… The images show police officers assigned to the close security of Jean-Marc Kabund brutalizing a soldier of the Presidential Guard sitting in a jeep.

The driver of the vehicle filmed the scene himself.

He was driving in the wrong direction, which angered Jean-Marc Kabund.

His guards then brutalized the passenger, the soldier, until they stole his weapon before boarding him.

The following day, other soldiers from the Republican Guard invaded Kabund's residence for a punitive expedition.

In his absence, the interior of the villa was ransacked and his guard arrested.

This violence has not been commented on either by the presidential party or by the National Assembly.

By announcing his resignation on Twitter, Jean-Marc Kabund affirms that a new page of history is opening and that it will be written "with the sweat of our brow, which will flow each day that we face bullying , humiliation and torture”. 

On this day I make the decision to resign from my duties as 1st VP of the AN.

Thus opens a new page of history, which will be written with the sweat of our brow, which will flow each day that we face bullying, humiliation and torture...

— Jean-Marc KABUND-A-KABUND (@kabund_jmkkrock) January 14, 2022

In the entourage of Félix Tshisekedi, some sources speak of a drop of water that made the vase overflow.

Jean-Marc Kabund was the biggest absentee from the president's recent tour of the Kasai region.  

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