News in the DRC: Reactions following the assassination of Chérubin Okende Senga
More than a week after the assassination of Chérubin Okende Senga, former Congolese Minister of Transport and spokesperson for the Together for the Republic party, tensions between the government and the opposition continue to rise. Accusations are coming from both sides, fueling a climate of mistrust and uncertainty.
In a statement published recently, the party Together for the Republic, led by opponent Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, denounced the “doubtful parallelisms” made by certain members of the government between this assassination and that of the former Congolese Head of State, Laurent Désiré Kabila. The party claims that such comparisons are indecent and unacceptable, and calls for the search for the truth to find the perpetrators and sponsors of this murder.
The opposition also criticizes the Minister of Finance, Nicolas Kazadi Kadima, and the minister spokesperson for the government, Patrick Muyaya, for their communication, which they consider to be offhand in this affair. She accuses the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, Firmin Mvonde Mambu, of publicly disclosing the elements of his first investigations in a tendentious way, thus endangering the principle of the secrecy of the instruction.
Faced with these accusations, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation retracted, qualifying his remarks concerning the circumstances of the death of Chérubin Okende Senga. He said that only the autopsy can determine whether the death was due to bullets, and that the results of it are crucial to clarify the gray areas of the investigation.
In this context, public opinion is questioning the motivations of the protagonists and the real issues behind this assassination. Some see it as an attempt to manipulate public opinion to hide the real culprits, while others call for caution in statements that could disrupt the investigation.
It is essential that the search for the truth take precedence in this case, in order to bring justice to Chérubin Okende Senga and to guarantee the safety of Congolese citizens. It is also important that political actors put aside their quarrels and work together to find solutions to the challenges facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In conclusion, the assassination of Chérubin Okende Senga continues to arouse strong reactions within the Congolese political class