DRC ruler Felix Tshisekedi aka Mabundi Fatshi, is nothing more than a kuluna in a tie—a polished version of the very street criminals he now orders to the gallows. While he robs the Congolese blind with the RAM tax scam, carves up Kolwezi’s mining riches for his cronies, and pillages the Central Bank with pharaonic emergency withdrawals, he dares to play executioner for petty thieves.
The hypocrisy is staggering. Tshisekedi has overseen the hanging of 102 petty thieves—the infamous kuluna—while he and cronies loot DR Congo like famished bandits.
Kuluna are desperate youths snatching wallets or breaking into homes for scraps to survive. Contrast that with Tshilombo himself, who rose to power with nothing but moth-eaten suits from Tombola Bwaka’s bargain rack. Today, Tshilombo struts in bespoke outfits and polished Weston shoes, all bought with the blood money of the Congolese people.
And then, there’s his pathetic Caesar complex. Fatshi fancies himself as the ultimate arbiter of life and death, wielding the death penalty like a tribal scepter. Yet the true bandits—the embezzlers draining the state coffers dry—are his friends and enablers, enjoying champagne and caviar in Gombe mansions. Justice? Don’t make us laugh. Under Fatshi’s reign, the small fish are publicly hanged while the sharks live in unbridled luxury, their mansions built on the backs of starving Congolese children.
But the audacity doesn’t stop there. Tshisekedi, our self-styled modern Nebuchadnezzar, flagrantly disregards international human rights norms, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His executions are barbaric relics, a grotesque showcase of power by a man whose hands are drenched in the nation’s blood.
Fatshi should remember: the wheel of history grinds even the mightiest tyrants into dust. Mobutu Sese Seko, the once-untouchable “Papa Maréchal,” was chased into oblivion by child soldiers wielding rusty Kalashnikovs. Tshilombo’s fate will be no different. The Kuluna in Weston Shoes will meet his reckoning, and when he does, history will record him not as a leader but as a thief who thought he could kill his citizens with impunity.
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