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"We must fight against economic and financial colonization" (Jules Alingete)
Since the accession to the supreme office of Félix Tshisekedi, the General Inspectorate of Finance has been strengthened in capacity and means in order to track down the perpetrators of economic crimes in the DRC.
In line with the vision of the Head of State, Félix Tshisekedi to put an end to embezzlement and corruption in the DRC, Jules Alingete refuses to back down on this.
Indeed, he believes that the same energy that will have enabled the DRC to free itself from the colonial yoke should motivate the Congolese to "fight against the financial colonization imposed by internal and external predators in order to bequeath to our children a country where it will be a good life, ”wrote the financial policeman on his Twitter account.
State coffers have been bleeding for many years because of the financial and economic predation committed by Congolese political actors.
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Chinese contract: in the absence of an amicable solution, four NGOs suggest the nationalization of Sicomines
The report of the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) on the contract signed on September 17, 2008 between the DRC and a group of Chinese companies (GEC) is still in the news.
This Wednesday, March 1, four civil society organizations, namely the Public Expenditure Observatory (Odep), the African Association for the Defense of Human Rights (Asadho), the Congolese Association for Access to Justice (Acaj) and the Economic Governance and Democracy Network (Reged), while welcoming the IGF's report, called for the review of the contract deemed unbalanced.
The IGF report highlights significant disbursements made to Chinese companies established in the DRC, but very low investments in infrastructure for the benefit of the country as agreed in April 2018 when the said agreement was signed.
In the absence of an amicable solution at the end of these discussions, these organizations recommend to the President of the Republic, to the government, to the Courts and tribunals to suspend, then to cancel this agreement, or even to nationalize Sicomines.
They said so in a statement read by Professor Florimond Muteba, PCA of Odep.
These organizations also demand legal proceedings against all those involved in the signing and in the management of this convention and ask President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi not to leave unpunished the perpetrators of what they describe as "economic crime".
They also plead for the respective responsibility of all the public authorities who were involved in the conclusion and management of the aforesaid Convention to be engaged, from the President of the Republic, to the executives, through the prime ministers, the ministers whose sectors are concerned, the Congolese negotiators, the coordinator of the project as well as the persons in charge of the Congolese Agency of great works (Acgt) and those of Gecamines.
To the control institutions, they ask to undertake or continue the control of all the agreements, in particular mining, in which the DRC is bound, to safeguard the interests of the Congolese people.
These organizations urge Chinese partners to encourage their companies to submit to the duty of accountability and to encourage those arrested to present their means of defense through legal channels.
To the political actors, these organizations ask to refrain from politicizing this file, in order to allow the Congolese people, owner of the national resources, to receive all the clarifications on the way in which their wealth is managed and to persuade any person in charge arrested in this file to present its means of defense by all legal means rather than attacking the IGF "which is only carrying out its legal tasks".
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