The Ball is in the center. It is this Friday, July 24, 2020 that opens at the Court of Appeal of Kinshasa, Gombe the appeal trial of Vital Kamerhe and his co-accused, the Lebanese Samih Jammal, both sentenced in the first degree to the maximum penalty. 20 years of forced labor by the Kinshasa,Gombe tribunal de grande instance, for embezzlement of public funds as part of the 100-day program in its component of “prefabricated houses”. This is accompanied by a few ancillary penalties, in particular the sentence to 5 years of ineligibility.
For this first meeting, the group of lawyers of the director of the “prevented” cabinet of the Head of State who does not intend to abdicate, says he is confident and waits for the appeal judge to note the defects in the judgment rendered in first degree.
This was revealed the day before the opening of the trial, Maître Jean-Marie Kabengela Ilunga, a member of the Congolese lawyers collective of Vital Kamerhe, on Top Congo radio. “The trial is confirmed for this Friday on appeal so that the Court can examine the appeals of the defendants as well as those sentenced to special confiscation of their property,” he said.
Not satisfied with the verdict pronounced in the first degree, Maître Kabengela Ilunga intends to see the judge of the Court of Appeal of Kinshasa at Gombe re-examine the things and to note the vice of the judgment rendered by the tribunal de grande instance of Kinshasa / Gombe and proceed as right.
Namely, this member of the defense collective of Vital Kamerhe had already announced the day following the judgment of the TGI at Gombe that their client should appeal in order to obtain the reform of what he considered as “bad judgment. surrendered ”, before releasing in parable“ Vital Kamerhe lost a battle, and not the war ”.
For him, the judgment was poorly delivered despite the fact that the judge not only developed poor motivation, but above all was unable to demonstrate that Vital Kamerhe had signed a document attesting that he had received money. , allegedly hijacked.
What about the duration of this appeal trial?
As a legal practitioner, this man in a two-tone gown informs that the duration of this case before the Kinshasa / Gombe Court of Appeal will depend only on the questions which will require the reconsideration of the file on appeal. And for the rest, he blurted, the appreciation stems from the judge’s inner conviction.
Comeback on the verdict of June 20
The Kinshasa / Gombe Tribunal de Grande Instance ruling on criminal matters in the first degree, sitting in a fairground at the Central Prison of Makala, pronounced its verdict on Saturday, June 20, 2020, during which it held Vital Kamerhe and his co-accused, Samih Jammal, the boss of Samibo SARL company, of the offense of embezzlement of public funds. Which earned them, each, a sentence of 20 years of forced labor, accompanied by accessory penalties such as; “The ban for 10 years after the execution of the sentence, the right to vote and the right of eligibility with regard to the accused Kamerhe”, and “the final expulsion from the territory of the Republic after the execution the sentence against the Lebanese businessman, Samih Jammal ”. Also, the court ordered the payment in solidum of a sum of 150,000,000 US dollars to the civil party which is the Democratic Republic of Congo as damages.
The Secretary General of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), Father Donatien Nshole paid a consolation visit to Vital Kamerhe in his cell at the central prison of Makala. The visit was a personal initiative, he says, to put an end to the confusion.
Sentenced to 20 years of forced labor by the Kinshasa-Gombe Tribunal de grande instance, Vital Kamerhe was surprised by the Secretary General of the National Episcope Conference “ CENCO ”, Abbot Donatien Nshole, who failed to entrust the press service to divulge the personal nature of his visit. “It’s in a personal capacity, I was not sent to negotiate anything. He’s not the only person I’ve seen, it’s not the first time I’ve been to Makala. I go there almost every year. It’s just that ”,emphasised the Secretary General of CENCO.
In this straight line, the secretary general of CENCO also stressed that this gesture is a habit and that he has already done with several political figures, namely: the President of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) Jean-Pierre Bemba when he was in The Hague and Franck Diongo. ” It is not the first time. When Franck Diongo was in prison, I did the same. And, while in The Hague in Holland, I took the opportunity to greet Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba, “he said.
It should be noted that the appeal trial of Vital Kamerhe, which was initially scheduled for Friday July 24, had not lasted more than ten minutes and the Kinshasa-Gombe Court of Appeal adjourned the session, pending regularization. of the referral. Note that the next hearing is postponed until August 7.
Today, throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Youth League of the Union for the Congolese Nation ” UNC ”, is planning a peaceful march to support their National President, Vital Kamerhe, who will appear next Friday, July 24, on appeal to challenge the verdict rendered in the first instance by the judge of the Kinshasa-Gombe Tribunal de Grande Instance.
These events are scheduled for the sake of accompanying the national president of that party, who will appear this Friday in the 100-day trial, at the Kinshasa / Gombe appeals court. To achieve this, the UNC through its youth league is mobilizing in every nook and cranny for the success of said support march. In this straight line, the UNC-Bukavu activists, initiators of this march, gave their program containing the routes in this message addressed to the town hall. “The UNC is organizing a peaceful march and sit-in, to sympathize with our national president Vital Kamerhe, in the so-called 100-day trial between the prosecution and the Kinshasa Gombe appeals court. On July 23, 2020, peaceful march at 11am, from the party’s headquarters in the Governorate, where a memorandum will be read and filed. Friday July 24, motorized caravan followed by a sit-in, which will begin at 10 am towards the Funu field, in compliance with the progress of the trial ”, says the correspondence signed by Richard Bunani, Interfederal Secretary of the UNC at South Kivu.
It should be remembered that Vital Kamerhe was sentenced by the TGI-Gombe on June 20 to 20 years of forced labor by the TGI of Kinshasa / Gombe. His lawyers have appealed, and the hearing in this trial is scheduled for Friday, July 24, 2020.
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