Revelations of the sickening embezzlement and theft of public funds under Félix Tshisekedi’s regime continue to flow with each day coming with a new financial scandal to be exposed.
Center for Research in Public Finance and Local Development (CREFDL) have released a report in which the Tshisekedi government has been implicated for spending US$3 million of public funds on a ghost road project.
Facts uncovered in the CREFDL’s report indicates that the Ministry of Finance, then under Nicolas Kazadi, between 2021 and 2023 had approved and paid US$3 million for the construction of roads in Kinshasa.
The government had spent the funds to construct Elengesa, Mariano-Makala and Yolo Medical-Mombele routes as well as renovate other township roads within Kinshasa which have never seen the light of the day.
Former Minister of Finance Nicolas Kazadi who has just been exonerated without cause, thanks to his tribesmate Félix Tshisekedi, from a drilling and street lighting scandal, is also at the centre of this ghost roads scandal.
Once again, a blatant illustration of Tshisekedi regime’s opaque and malicious management of public resources.
This money, which could have been used to improve the standards of living for Kinshasa residents by repairing or building real road infrastructure, seems to have disappeared in the twists and turns of administrative corruption.
The situation of non-existent financed roads in Kinshasa is not only a government failure, but also an urgent call for a change of leadership in the DR Congo.
