Running discussion on SP, page-31510

Probably due to factors like rogue DRC army elements around Manono charging their own road taxes as evidenced in this 2020 media report. (below)
Note also the presence of foreign armies in the province!


The coordination of civil society denounces the harassment by the Congolese soldiers in the territory of Manono in Tanganyika. In an interview with Radio Okapi on Saturday May 16, its coordinator, Abbé Moïse Kiluba, said that the DRC Armed Forces make households pay for access to the fields and ransom travelers.

Facts which occur particularly in the Nyembo wa Nkunda and Kalamata groups, about 180 km south-east of Manono.

In these two groups, each household is given a token by the military against payment of a sum of 500 Congolese Francs (0.27 USD).

In addition, denounces the coordinator of civil society, to have access to their fields, the peasants also pay 500 francs per individual on the way there and back.

“Sale of tokens to household managers, 500 francs. Even to go to the fields, you have to pay, as for returning from the fields, you also have to pay. And at the barriers, there are a thousand Congolese francs (0.54 USD) that you have to pay when you are a pedestrian and you have a bicycle. And the bikers, they have to pay 5,000 francs. And when you have bad luck, you may be asked for more than that ”, denounces Father Moïse Kiluba.

Last April, the territory administrator, Pierre Mukamba Kaseya, succeeded in defusing the strike initiated by the bikers, who denounced the military harassment.

It should be noted that several localities in Tanganyika province are occupied by the Zambian army, which prompted the Congolese government to deploy FARDC elements in the border areas with Zambia.

(Translated via google)
https://infocongo.net/2020/05/18/tanganyika-la-societe-civile-denonce-les-tracasseries-des-fardc-a-manono/