Imposter President Felix Tshisekedi’s bid to silence opposition Ensemble pour la République president Moise Katumbi has received widespread push back from Congolese across the country and beyond.
Tshisekedi order his security agency, ANR, to invade Katumbi’s private property where the Lubumbashi-based politician is constructing a hospital for villagers and disrupted the project.
The soldiers picked one of Katumbi’s workers and impounded a vehicle on site claiming clandestine activities were going on.
Observers and the general population view the attack on Katumbi by the authorities as an assault on the opposition leader.
Many view Tshisekedi’s action as part of the scheme to manipulate the constitution first by silencing critical voices in the country.
“In Africa, when a head of state is disowned by his own people, he always tends to want to change the constitution to stay in power or to extend his term, we call on the Congolese population to follow in the footsteps of the Guineans to put a stop to this perfidy,” a Congolese social commentator has said.
The assualt on Katumbi’s private business happend in an area called Mulonde.
His spokesperson Olivier Kamitatu writes, “In the middle of the night, four jeeps filled
with heavily armed soldiers have just taken over the track of the small village of Mulonde.
“This staging is nothing more than a smokescreen to mask the authorities inability to recover the territories under M23 control.
“It is easier to deploy force against peaceful citizens who only aspire to live in peace than to retake Bunagana.
“The real enemy that the country’s
authorities should neutralize is not the one they claim to be tracking down with this pathetic military deployment, but rather their indifference and contempt
for a population that has been totally abandoned and left behind.
“This farce highlights the regime’s inability to rehabilitate roads, to open up rural areas and to guarantee the basic social
services that every citizen has the right to expect from a legitimate government.”
