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Tshisekedi to new magistrates: “the absence of justice is a trivialization of evil”
Felix Tshisekedi wants more responsible magistrates. Last Saturday during the launch of the training for the first promotion of 2,500 new civil and military magistrates, the President of the Republic recalled aloud that “the absence of justice is a trivialization of evil”. A whole arrest.
By Rich Ntumba

President Félix Tshisekedi facing the new civil and military magistrates @Photo Rights third parties.
published on July 17, 2023 at 15:47:19
Very critical of the judiciary, Felix Tshisekedi has decided to attack, to denounce the evil of which the litigants complain, more and more disappointed by justice . “I absolutely want to restore discipline, ethics and integrity within the judiciary and more particularly to restore the image of justice in my country, which has long been tarnished. I am concerned about the smooth running and efficiency of our judicial apparatus” , he challenged the new magistrates.Without justice, there is no possible development. As if to say that the absence of justice is a trivialization of evil. But an effective judicial system is a means of deterrence and peace. Guarantor of the proper functioning of the institutions, I assume and I will always fully assume my responsibility by reframing, if necessary, a requalification of the action of justice and to avoid that by its action, the latter disqualifies the efforts of an entire nation. , insisted the supreme magistrate.

Thus for Félix Tshisekedi, the judiciary needs, at all levels, dignified, honest, well-trained facilitators in sufficient numbers who must be placed in decent living conditions and adequate working conditions.
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To this end, the Head of State enjoined the government to work with the Superior Council of the Judiciary in order to provide the judiciary with adequate means for the functioning of the Disciplinary Chambers, jurisdictions and offices, and also for the improvement in the salaries of magistrates.

To date, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a total of 5,710 civil and military magistrates, i.e. 1 magistrate for 14,500 inhabitants, unlike the 3,210 or 1 magistrate for nearly 2,700 inhabitants that the country had long before. said the President of the Constitutional Court, Dieudonné Kamuleta. Also president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, he also called on the new magistrates to adopt dignified and exemplary behavior instead of hastening to shout “ Fatshi concrete”.