The solemn audience took place in the Marcel Lihau Hall of the supreme Court of appeal in the presence of several distinguished guests including Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba who represented the President of the Republic.
On this occasion, the national president Tharcisse Matadiwamba Kamba Mutu pronounced a speech focused on the fight against corruption with a focus on education, treatment and diagnosis.
Unlike the fight against Ebola and the negative forces that plague the Republic, a fight in which the government is engaged, the fight against corruption has the particularity that corruption is in us. Hence the need, argues Me Matadiwamba, to educate the citizen. "If the leaders, on the one hand, and the leaders on the other, do not apprehend the need for the fight against corruption, the fight is lost in advance", the national president said. Education is at the base of everything. Indeed, "if people do not understand the merits of a fight, they will not accompany the driver", he said.
Tharcisse Matadiwamba also drew attention to the working conditions of magistrates accused wrongly or rightly of corruption as in the fable of Jean de la Fontaine. He argued that the country does not lack good judges. Alas, they are not placed in minimum working conditions.
For the national president, it is not correct in terms of corruption to prosecute some and let others run, the law is the same for all. Also, he invited the government to join in the military war, the judicial war. In other words, the DRC must not become a paradise for criminals of all stripes, those who steal, plunder and misappropriate public funds. "The Congo will be grateful", he concluded.
(CKS/Yes)