On day one of the general elections in DRC which was characterized by much violence in different parts of DRC, Tshisekedi, the unpopular president who was embarrassed by the way he organised elections sent his party militants to oppress the media personnel while covering the voting exercises, having achieved nothing throughout his first five-year term, Tshisekedi has opted to invest in violence so that he may rig the votes easily.
Firstly, Tshisekedi ordered the Closure of “Perfect TV”, a local popular TV station which was covering the electoral process notably the violence and the attempts to rig the votes in favour of Tshisekedi, the regime after realising that the TV station is embarrassing them, they ordered the immediate closure without explanation, Tshisekedi doesn’t want the world to see what is happening in DRC, he wants his controlled media to publish what he wants.
Secondly, another incident that was seen on the first day of the election was the Persecution of journalists covering impartially elections across the country, an RFI correspondent Pascal Mulengwa was attacked by Tshisekedi partisans while covering the electoral process in one of the polling stations in Kinshasa, about 120 youth said to be the supporters of Tshisekedi’s party UDPS attacked this journalist and threaten him to kill him for working with French press agency that they believed to mislead them, the Association of International Press Correspondents in the Democratic Republic of Congo (ACPI-RDC) denounces the attack. But this shows how the Kinshasa regime wants to cover their failure and rigging tactics by prosecuting journalists who are exercising their rights.
Lastly, the Tshisekedi regime denied accreditation to foreign journalists, fearing that his long-planned electoral fraud would be exposed, they did this by ordering the closure of DRC borders and its airspace a day before the general election, this means the international journalists who were supposed to land in DRC to cover the election process were barred because the borders were closed, this was also done intentionally by the regime to cover their failure.
As the election process continues, it will continue to be hard for the Tshisekedi regime if he continues to oppress the media for his fear of being embarrassed, he has already been embarrassed, and he is going to be in the history as someone who turned DRC the world capital of electoral fraud.
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