Over the weekend different media reports run stories of Tshisekedi’s budget expenses on military build-up that has increased by 105 percent compared to previous years. This is after an embargo of arms was lifted by a number of western countries.
Tshisekedi exorbitant expenditure on weaponry however is useless and pities DRC into deeper chaos and abject poverty. Since the lifting of arms embargo Tshisekedi went into an overdrive of arms procurements supplied them into groups of armed men and plunged the country into further chaos.
It is important to note that despite a staggering expenditure totalling 105 per cent, Tshisekedi’s military has failed to dislodge M23 from its territories. The purchase state of the art’s military hardware from all corners of the world did not further help his national army to make any military gains in the ongoing fights against M23.
At the start of the confrontations between M23 and the coalition of FARDC, FDLR, SADC, Mai Mai, Black Water mercenaries and more, they were regular reports of how drones and fighting jets attacked M23 positions and dislodged them, they were even reports that senior officials of M23 succumbed to drones’ attack but for the past six months no one hears about drones and Sukhoi stories anymore.
on the other hand, the only thing the the procurement of weaponry has served is the ammunition of more than 100 armed groups that uses DRC as a sanctuary. The same reason that had pushed the west to impose an armed embargo. This shows that Tshisekedi learnt nothing and forgot nothing. What is sad is how thousands of innocent Congolese with their dear lives continue to pay the highest of the price at the expense of such recklessness.
Since the start of 2024, Goma and other northern cities have never been at peace, the supply of arms into Wazalendo militia has put the cities at a standstill where those armed men perpetrate all sorts of crimes with impunity and walk scot-free. Incompetent naïve Tshisekedi has even publicly claimed that he cannot contain the spread of violence and killings done by those militias.
Even worse, as illegitimate incompetent Tshisekedi continues to drain DRC public coffers with reckless expenditures on military buildup, the underfunded sectors in the DRC have led to 74 per cent of Congolese people living on less than $2 a day, a stark reality indicative of abject poverty. This is a sad reality and a typical description of a state on the verge of a cliff.
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