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Kinshasa, Paris, Brussels.
Le Soft International n°1513 | Monday, December 28, 2020.
Speaking on French-language channel TV5, former Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon defended himself on the Bukanga-Lonzo issue: “But when you decide to sew a shirt and you don’t finish it, if another person your place, doesn’t finish it, whose fault is it?
He attacked his successor, Samy Badibanga Ntita, to whom he handed over the keys to the Government House, but who only lasted one morning (November 17, 2016 to May 18, 2017, 6 months and 1 day, the government team appointed on December 19, who worked less) and the person who worked longer at 5 Avenue Roi Baudouin, Bruno Tshibala Nzenze, who was appointed on May 18, 2017, surrendered to Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba on September 7, 2019.
In early July, on Monday, July 6, a press release from the former Prime Minister set the tone: Matata never managed funds destined for investment projects. “There is no need to remind national and international opinion that the Prime Minister, under his authority, while remaining at the center of promotion and critical evaluation of government actions in coordination with the President of the Republic, has never been a center that is not the unit for ordering public funds, nor the unit for implementing government projects, let alone the place where funds destined for investment projects are paid or managed”, the focus reads.
Matata then stated in this press release that he reserves the right to take legal action under the criminal code for all these impossible and reprehensible facts, insisting through his office that the Bukangalonzo agro-industrial park project, the new locomotives for the Congolese National Railway Company (SNCC), Air Congo, Transco, Esprit de vie buses, the relaunch of the Congolese Transport and Ports Company (SCPT), etc., are not within the management of the Congolese National Railway Company. The Prime Minister added that the ministries ensured coordination. Regarding the agro-industrial park, two ministries were targeted: the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance.
Words of justice.
Who are these ministers? Matata 1, Minister of Finance (Prime Minister’s Representative Patrice Kitebi Kibol Mvul and Deputy Minister Roger Shulungu Runika), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Minister Jean Chrisostome Vahamwiti Mukesyayira); Matata II, from 7 December 2014 to 14 November 2016, Minister of Finance (Minister Henri Yav Mulang and Deputy Minister Albert Mpeti Biyombo); Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock (Isidore Kabwe Mwehu, later Émile Mota Ndongo Kang).
But multiple sources say that the minister who signed the contract with the South African company Africom Commodities (LTD) was Rémy Musungayi Bampale, from the opposition, who took office in South Africa in response to Kabila, whose election was strongly opposed by all prime ministers. In the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in the square of the Cité de l’UA, cunningly called on all those who are “passionate about Congo” to join him, today AFDC-A Bahati and FCC -PPRD. The then Minister of Industry, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Minister of Land Affairs Robert Mbwinga Bila wrote to Soft International that they had nothing to do with the Bukanga Lonzo project.
“Prime Minister Matata asked us to sign the contract. That’s it,” one said.
Another was surprised that we talked to them about an $80 million project that cost more than $200 million, and whose financier was the South Sudanese Armed Forces, and whose financier was the Congolese Ministry of Public Finance. The letter from the former Prime Minister received by the Soft International editorial office gleefully praised ‘economic and financial governance (at the time), where the tax pressure rate had peaked at nearly 15%, and today it is less than 9%’.
He called for an audit of his tenure as director-general of BCeCO, then finance minister, from 2003 to 2010. He admitted that “no government agency was involved in the management of the project’s funds” and blamed the project’s chaos on the state’s suspension of funding.
Yet a predatory economic system worse than the one established by Mobutu exists and operates in the country, and President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo wants to destroy it.
A letter dated December 16, 2020 to Yerkis Muzama Muzinga, Director of Le Soft International magazine, details that Isidore Kabwe Mwehu Longo, Attorney General of the Republic, President of the High Authority of Media, President of the Press Union, Congo and ACP, the third former Matata Minister, now Deputy Minister, always unknown why, exercised the right of reply and “categorically denied any connection with my involvement in the management of Bukanga”. In fact, during my tenure as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock (from December 7, 2014 to September 25, 2015), the Longo file never fell under my jurisdiction.
Former minister Matata said he “disputes the facts imputed to (him).” Ed. No. 1510, dated December 11, 2020, “Matata, Kitebi, Ida Nasewa and other accused stand up”, written by Mr. Arunga Mbwa. He “regretted” that his name was quoted in the Soft International article without pointing out “any precise facts that could support” his involvement, arguing that there was “malicious intent mainly to undermine his personal honour and dignity”.
It said it reserves the “right to take legal action” against the author of the said article, Lesoft International, and anyone else who continues to peddle or spread false facts, clearly alluding to the following statement in a press release issued by the former Prime Minister’s Office on July 6.
The remarks of MP Isidore Kabwe Mwehu Longo would assume significance if they are in line with those of the former Prime Minister who, through the Cabinet, claimed that under his mandate, the Prime Minister “never ensured coordination of any project” that was “dependent on a departmental ministry”. In the case of the Agro-Industrial Park, the two ministries targeted were the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance.
It remains to be determined by the judicial system – and only by the judicial system, with the competent authorities in charge – the real responsibility of this financial mafia, which allocated at least 200 million US dollars, leading to the failure of a project that was submitted abusively to the Congolese, just as the Congo emerged.
Goat’s goat.
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