The President of the Republic, Felix Tshisekedi, issues the state of siege for the provinces of North-Kivu as well as Ituri in order to bring back peace and safety in this part of the country, announces the Congolese News Agency which refers to the communication of the Head of State at the time of the first Council of Ministers of Sama Lukonde government held last Friday at Cité de l’Union Africaine (UA).
With presidential order sanctioning this decision will be officialized in the next hours, pointed out the Minister of Transport and media and spokesman of the government, Patrick Muyaya.
In the same register, L’AVENIR specifies that when serious circumstances threaten, of immediate way, the independence or the integrity of the national territory or that they causes the interruption of the regular operation of the institutions, the president of the Republic proclaims the emergency state or siege after dialogue with the Prime Minister and the presidents of the two rooms in accordance with articles 144 and 145 of the Constitution.
As soon as the state of siege is proclaimed, the two rooms of the Parliament automatically meet to give legal contents at the emergency state.
LE PHARE gives a report on a "suspect agitation among godfathers of the armed groups", following the proclamation of the state of siege in Ituri and in North-Kivu.
According to the tabloid, the godfathers and accessory to the negative, local forces like foreign, are agitated not to claim personal freedoms but rather to perennialize the State of non right, which allowed them during more than two decades growing rich without cause, to the detriment of the great number, the illicit traffic of the natural resources, the illegal taxes, etc.
Between personal freedoms which support the insecurity and the absence of the authority of the State, and their restrictions, carrying peace and safety, the choice is clear, LE PHARE estimates. Can be agitated only fellow-citizens having hidden diaries.
FORUM DES AS is made the echo of Delly Sesanga’s reaction about the proclamation of this state of siege "I would have done something different…", declared the leader of Envol during a political morning organized Saturdays May 1st at Badiadingi district in the township of Selembao. Delly Sesanga thinks that President Felix Tshisekedi has much more elements to be able to go in the way of the state of siege, but he estimates that the Head of State had other possibilities to go directly towards the state of siege. The representative of Luiza said to have a solution, but he does not reveal it yet, preferring to let the debate grow rich.
CONGO NOUVEAU notes that the decisions announced by President Tshisekedi however leave skeptic the Lucha citizen movement. Accustomed to the effects of announcement on the return of peace in the East since Joseph Kabila to Felix Tshisekedi, Congolese are tired to see Kinshasa impotent in front of the armed groups. Lucha fears that the state of siege is only a cosmetic measure intended to give the impression that one acts to put an end to the massacres whereas actually, one maintains the statu quo.
For Lucha, President Felix Tshisekedi must make the change within the army and dismiss of their function the racketeers or criminals officers. It will also be necessary to punish those who divert the balance of the soldiers.
Corneille Kinsala Nsoki
(CKS/Yes)