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Congolese justice is gradually starting to dig into the past. A judicial investigation has just been opened by the prosecutor general’s office at the Kinshasa / Matete Court of Appeal on the management of USD 50 million allocated to the fiber optic project. Indeed, the involvement of the Congolese justice in this case which has long caused a lot of water to flow under the bridge is nothing other than good news for Professor Tryphon Kin-kiey Mulumba, who has not failed to react immediately after this big announcement. “I look forward to this matter being cleared up like all the others. The various ministers (Portfolio, Finances, PTNTIC at the time and the DGs of the SCPT) will be called to testify. If there has been a diversion, let it be determined by justice, ”reacted this former Minister of PTNTIC.Congolese prosecutor general

Pointed out by several people on the web, Tryphon Kin-kiey Mulumba has never ceased to proclaim loud and clear his innocence, suggesting that all the accusations leveled against him through social networks, would be unfounded, carried out by malicious people. “Under my ministry, I did not sign any contracts or manage any dollars. These are fanciful accusations from social media. Unfortunately, NGOs probably need justification to receive money. You can put the question to Prime Minister Matata who kept me in his office from the time he entered until he left, “replied this member of the Matata government, who has been wrongly accused by NGOs.Congolese prosecutor general

In his tracks, the former ally of Joseph Kabila and unsuccessful candidate for the presidential election of December 2018, had publicly encouraged that the Congolese justice could take up the fiber optic file. “I publicly encourage the justice of the DRC to dig into all the files of the past 20 years and, as a priority, the project of shame saved in extremis, Fiber Optic”, had hammered the former Minister of relations with the Parliament .

The one who is currently Coordinator of CACH Grand Bandundu had, moreover, lodged a complaint against the officials of two NGOs, namely, the Congolese League for the Fight against Corruption (LICOCO) and the Network of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (APNAC), for defamation. . These two NGOs accused him of being involved in a diversion of 25 million dollars of optical fiber.

Meanwhile, the average Congolese are waiting for justice to really do its job to establish accountability, to severely punish those who have embezzled poor taxpayers’ money.