Justice has just got hold of a relative of the main suspect in the case of the death of two human rights defenders Floribert Chebeya and his colleague Fidèle Bazana for which several people have already been convicted. This man would have done everything to dissuade police officer Paul Mwilambwe Londe from testifying about what he had seen on the evening of the assassinations.
With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe
This is a new episode in the case of the assassination on June 1, 2010 of the two human rights defenders Floribert Chebeya and his colleague Fidèle Bazana, both from the NGO The Voice of the Voiceless. A former executive at the Airway Authority in the city of Lubumbashi, Antoine Mwiyande wa Kondo was arrested in Kinshasa this weekend. According Mr. Peter Ngomo, the lawyer for police officer Paul Mwilambwe, the main witness who was acquitted, justice has in its hands an important figure in the Floribert Chebeya case. ” It is a gentleman who at the material time intervened before Paul Mwilambwe returned “, he says.
“ If indeed, Paul Londe was afraid, he would not have come in view of the threats made to him by Mr. Mwiyande. In these audios, Mwiyande himself had attributed the assassination of these two human rights defenders to John Numbi and Kabila. But he went even further by telling Paul Mwilambwe that he spoke regularly to John Numbi, that he had his number and that he even knew where he was. He had even mentioned the place where he was “, adds the lawyer.
Although the prime suspect, General John Numbi, has been on the run for several monthsMe Peter Ngomo now wants Antoine Mwiyande wa Kondo to be heard in this case which has not yet finished revealing all its gray areas.