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Mr President. Your people need a strong leader who can improve their living standards.
Fight against corruption: a delegation from the US State Department in the DRC to encourage and support the efforts undertakenDRC has lost close to $100 million dollars by delaying the Monono mining licence. Imagine how many Schools , Hospitals, Roads and Clean drinking water could have been delivered. Must act NOW
The United States of America encourages and supports both national and private anti-corruption structures in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This is the consequence of the policy advocated both nationally and internationally by Joe Biden since taking office.
This clarification was provided by Richard Nephew, the State Department's Global Anti-Corruption Coordinator, during a press conference he hosted on Friday, March 17, 2023 at the residence of the US Ambassador. United States in Kinshasa.
On this occasion, the State Department's anti-corruption coordinator, accompanied by Shannon Green, USAID executive director in charge of the anti-corruption unit.
It should be noted that the visit of Richard Nephew and Shannon Green to Kinshasa comes before the DRC's participation in the second democracy summit to be held in Zambia on March 30.
Richard Nephew stressed that during the two days he had to spend in the Congolese capital, he had the opportunity to meet several personalities, both official and civil society, involved in the fight against corruption.
Together, they admitted that corruption prevents the establishment of democracy and diminishes the population's confidence in its leaders.
Because the resources engulfed in corruption could usefully serve the population by providing drinking water, building classes, social services, etc.
He noted that his country is doing its best so that the wealth of each country is not devoured by corruption, but benefits its people more.
In addition, Shannon Green welcomed the fact that in the United States, President Joe Biden has increased the fight against corruption at the national and international level.
She noted that this evil causes the waste of resources that should contribute to the development of a country.
To counter this scourge, his organization – which is USAID – has initiated, encouraged and participated in several meetings with the government, civil society or with the EITI (extractive industries transparency initiatives) since 2020. objective is to ensure that the resources are well managed and that they really benefit the population.
In this regard, she pointed out that several irregularities have been identified and corrected.
The current government has put in place some anti-corruption structures.
This is why USAID is happy to work in partnership with the Congolese government.
However, according to the two speakers, Congolese civil society accepts that the government is indeed fighting corruption, but not at the accelerated pace that it would have liked.
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Kasaï: from the political transfer window to Tshikapa
Like a game of football, the market for political transfers is played well both in the provincial executive, in the deliberative body and in the political salons of the province of Kasaï.
As the end of his mandate approaches, after 4 years of slump and waste, without satisfactory results, provincial and national deputies, senators and provincial ministers cling around Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Republic, for be absolved of their sins!
The political order of Kasai has collapsed, everyone is rocking.
Everyone now identifies with the Sacred Union and suddenly begins to sing the anthem of power "Fatshi Béton".
Everyone is trying in their own way to save themselves from the boat that is capsizing a few months before the elections, motivated by a single concern, to get back to business.
Alas!
This without embarrassment, "but politics being dynamic", they say.
Note: while Governor Dieudonné Pieme Tutokot, elected PPRD, has made a comeback to the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), his mentor Senator Evariste Boshab has joined the USN with weapons and baggage.
For his part, the President of the Provincial Assembly Aloïs Mushitu Ngenge, Kabiliste since the AFDL chose the Union for the Congolese nation of Vital Kamerhe.
He was followed by provincial deputy Tshiyonga Funga Mutelo.
The strongest bloc in the Provincial Assembly broke up, each deputy went there with his party, AREP, AAC, etc.
Survival strategies around power.
Overnight, mostly PPRD, these provincial deputies, made deputies in office for the most part, not by a popular vote, but by caciques of the past regime, with the aim of continuously keeping the province of Kasaï under their influence, will.
Will they be washed into their new political family or will they go there with the same goals of continuing to keep the province in poverty?
The people are not fooled.
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