This weekend, during a television program broadcast across the DRC, Nicolas Kazadi, Tshisekedi’s former finance minister, finally joined the long list of those implicitly acknowledging what millions already know: tyrant Felix Tshisekedi is not just failing the DR Congo; he’s actively destroying it.
The man who once promised “le peuple d’abord” (the people first) now rules Congo like a mob boss, running a kleptocracy that would make even Mobutu blush.
Kazadi didn’t mince words. “We want too much enjoyment. If there’s money, let’s share it first and then think about it later,” he confessed.
This is not governance; it’s gangsterism at the state level. But they always have a scapegoat. In Tshisekedi’s Congo, “thinking” means only one thing: blaming Rwanda. Every theft and every missing project fund is something they will never account for. Blaming Rwanda is the main strategy to avoid accountability.
However it’s a strategy that has run its course and no longer fools anyone except Tshisekedi’s most gullible UDPS fanatics.
Under this thugocracy, corruption has not only flourished, it’s become institutionalised. Every corner of the DRC is rotting: schools without teachers; hospitals without medicine; roads without asphalt; and so on, while national resources are being siphoned by a clique of UDPS loyalists – ex-welfare scroungers from Europe, and a rapacious Tshisekedi Family that treats the DRC as their personal property.
But blame Rwanda!
But it seems that, at long last, the people have had enough.
From the Kivus to Katanga, waves of resistance are rising. The old tricks aren’t working. No amount of anti-Rwanda hysteria can cover the stench of the failure of Tshisekedi’s usurped presidency.
Tshilombo may still bark, but the Congolese population no longer is intimidated.
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