The controversy has been in full swing for three days in the DRC after comments made on the violence in the east of the country by the Inspector General of Finance, Jules Alingete, while he is on an official mission in the United States.
It all started with a speech delivered on Wednesday April 27 to an audience of businessmen in Houston, Texas. The Inspector General of Finance, Jules Alingete, then tried to convince these businessmen to invest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He will therefore praise the peace and security that he believes reigns in the country, with words that will shock more than one. ” Rest assured, we don’t have war in the Congo. We see war on television. We are in Lubumbashi, in Kinshasa, in the big cities where we have never seen the war in the Congo. So it’s a situation more than 2,000 kilometers from the institutions », says Jules Alingete.
A video is published on Twitter, it will immediately set the Congolese web ablaze. Some dedicate him to loathing, others defend him.
Alingete in the United States: there is no war in the DRC. What an insult, what lightness of language in the name of attracting investors who will not come. A pointless denial. Why did its leader establish a state of siege in this case? pic.twitter.com/9NK4UllwMx
— Seth Kikuni (@sethkikuni) April 26, 2022
Very quickly, opponents from civil society demanded a public apology and a resignation from his post. “ For thirty years today, the eastern part of the country has been confronted with armed conflicts which devastate the populations and to hear that the senior official denied that we are at war is to spit on the memory of all the victims. », criticizes Bienvenu Matumo, of the Citizen Movement Fight for Change (la Lucha).
A petition calling for his removal
The question is very sensitive, the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) comes into play and then tries to extinguish the fire by making public A press release in which she defends her frame. She takes it out on predators who want to exploit what is only a simple misunderstanding “, while taking care to express its “ very sorry “with those who have really been” bumped into by his words.
But nothing to do, the controversy continued until Thursday evening. The detractors of the famous Inspector General of the IGF have even launched a petition which simply calls for his dismissal.
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