activists from the Union for the Congolese Nation UNC
A strong tension has been observed since the morning of this Saturday, May 23, 2020 on the road section between the Rond-Point Carrefour and ONL Janda in the commune of Kadutu, city of Bukavu in South Kivu.
Basically, activists from the Union for the Congolese Nation UNC, a political party dear to Vital Kamerhe, took to the streets early in the morning to demand the release of the latter currently detained in Makala central prison in Kinshasa.
These activists barricaded the road not far from the Funu site. The police then intervened, firing bullets to disperse the demonstrators.
In these scuffles, witnesses on the spot report that two people are seriously injured and some activists were arrested by the police.
They woke up very early in the morning of this Friday 23/05/2020, strong tensions between some young people who barricaded the stretch of funu and the police.
One of the wounded was shot in the leg, the other injured in the stomach, according to Cimpunda deputy district chief Bezo Mulegwa.
The latter was transferred to the Provincial General Reference Hospital in Bukavu for treatment while the former was admitted to the Berna Hospital Center, his case not being serious.
The policeman responsible for the shots is at the stops in Kadutu commune.
Note that other activists of the Union for the Congolese Nation are visible along the road to Kalengera not far from the Pharmakina company in the commune of Bagira from Friday May 22 until the morning of this Saturday May 23, 2020.
With UNC flags in hand, these activists wear banners that read, “We demand an end to the relentlessness against Vital Kamerhe; Kamerhe is our leader; He’s a peacemaker; Vital Kamerhe does not deserve such a fate… ”.
Already on Friday May 22, other demonstrators were visible at the Civil Society Coordination Office with the same messages. And on the same Friday, other activists, who said they were voters for President Félix Tshisekedi, went to deliver a memorandum to the provincial governorate for the same cause.
Activists of the Union for the Congolese Nation continue to demand the release of their national president, Vital Kamerhe, director of cabinet of Félix Tshisekedi detained in Makala prison for more than a month.
In a demonstration this early morning Saturday in Kadutu commune in Bukavu, a person has just been shot by an element of the Congolese national police and several others seriously injured.
Young people took to the streets of Kadutu commune. After blocking the main road to the historic Fini stadium, hosting the Fatshi-Vit meeting during the recent electoral campaign, the police intervened and dispersed the demonstrations with tear gas bombs and live ammunition .
This assessment, still provisional, is delivered to us by the president of the society in the commune of Kadutu, Hypocrate Marume.
The demonstrators burned tires on the roadway to disrupt the movement of vehicles, before the Congolese national police intervened by firing live bullets at the demonstrators.
For the time being, the situation remains tense in Kadutu commune, where Vital Kamerhe was born.
Protesters condemn the way the Congolese national police acted, shooting civilians who were unarmed.
Detained since April 8, 2020 in Makala, the PN of the UNC will appear for the second time before the judge on May 25, after the appearance on May 11. He is being prosecuted for an alleged embezzlement of public funds allocated to the Fatshi 100 program. This trial, which his relatives, members and activists of his party, the “UNC”, have always described as “political” and “a coup” against their leader, and which, according to them, constitutes “a bitter and harshest”.
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