The residence of Moïse Katumbi and that of his adviser Salomon Kalonda Della Idi were searched on Thursday June 8 in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. Agents of the military intelligence services thoroughly searched these properties, eight days after the arrest of Salomon Kalonda Della Idi. He is still being held in a military intelligence cell in the Congolese capital. He is accused in particular of having links with the M23 hierarchy and the Rwandan military command.
With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Patient Ligodi
When he is in Kinshasa, it is in this opulent residence in the GB district that Moïse Katumbi lives. This Thursday, neither he nor any member of his family was present when the agents of the military intelligence staff disembarked.
Nothing was taken away according to the relatives of the opponent.
At the same time, another search was carried out in Lubumbashi at the home of his right-hand man, Solomon Kalonda Della Idion whom weigh heavy charges, including the preparation of a coup.
Dieudonné Bolengetenge, secretary general of Ensemble pour la République, the party of Moïse Katumbi denounces the way in which this search was carried out: ” What happened at his home in Lubumbashi is simply unspeakable. The agents cordoned off part of the neighborhood of his residence, evacuated all the people present in the vicinity, refused access to the lawyers of the owner of the place whose doors they forced to operate their package “.
The party denounces what it calls a “ instrumentalization of state services for political purposes. “ It is a form of harassment that only aims to muzzle the opposition and veil the shortcomings of the power in place. We call on the regime of Mr. Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo to stop this provocation which tarnishes the image of our country and risks leading our country to its conflagration “.
Aware of the current political tension, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, who was visiting the DRCcalled on all political actors on Wednesday for more restraint and responsibility.