Congolese ruler Tshisekedi has yet again become a laughingstock after he desperately decided to confer all his political failures, and failures of leadership, upon God.
This happened yesterday as Tshisekedi and his Burundian counterpart Evariste Ndayishimiye were addressing a joint press conference in Kinshasa.
Asked by a local journalist when the conflict in Eastern DRC will stop, Tshisekedi shamelessly replied, “The future belongs to God”, meaning that he has surrendered and irresponsibly put all his failures in the hands of God.
Tshisekedi continues to show his true face of incompetence. He must know that it is not God who promotes bandits into the army or refrains from punishing them, nor is it God who integrated the FDLR genocidaires into the Republican Guard.
It was not God who housed the M23 for 19 months in Kinshasa promising them dialogue and failed to act, which caused the fighters to return to self-defense.
It is also not God who told the ‘militants’ of LUCHA and Wazalendo-Interahamwe to sow anti-Tutsi hatred in the DRC.
It is not God who failed to implement the regional framework- the Luanda MoU and Nairobi processes established by regional leaders and endorsed by the international community as the only way to end the conflict in eastern DRC.
Tshisekedi, who wants to put his failure in the hands of God, knows that more than 280 armed groups are operating in eastern DRC, and his regime is supporting some of those rebels by giving them weapons to fight M23 and fan more conflict in the region.
Today, he decided to leave everything in the hands of the Lord, but yesterday, it was in the hands of the witchcraft of customary chiefs, sometimes in the hands of EAC, and tomorrow it will be in the hands of SADEC. Soon, it will be the BRICS, EU/USA, sometimes triumphalism, victimization, and the list is endless, given his irresponsibility and inept leadership.
The long-suffering Congolese citizens must know that the security and stabilization in Eastern DRC are in their hands, not outsiders.
ellenkampire