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“They owe me relevant explanations, otherwise they will go to prison” Félix Tshisekedi on Tshilejelu in Kabinda
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Tshilejelu a fiasco according to the IGF, bitter observation for the head of state Tshisekedi in Kasai Oriental
January 12, 2023
Kiki Kienge
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Kiki Kienge
As for the 100 days program, Tshilejelu is notably a presidential project which is managed directly by the presidency through the advisers of the Head of State.
The first consequence of this bitter observation by the Head of State, Félix Tshisekedi, is the termination of the contract signed with the Chinese company, CREC-7 on the Tshilejelu project.
The official reason, would be the technical incapacity of the Chinese company solicited for the deployment of the equipment and materials of the Tshilejelu project.
IGF report of November 30, 2021 on the Tshilejelu
project The Tshilejelu project launched in March 2021 by the Head of State Félix Tshisekedi, eight months after the IGF (Inspection Générale des Finances) noted:
– Only 2 km of road have been paved in Kinshasa.
– Zero Km in Mbuji-Mayi.
– Only 6 km in all of Kasai Oriental out of the 25 km planned.
– In the towns of Tshikapa, Kabinda, Lusambo and Mwene-Ditu, work has not even started.
– The price per km of road has gone from US$350,000/500,000 to be invoiced to the Congolese State to US$982,073.
– US$13,000,000 is said to have already been released by the bank between February and June 2021, but only US$4,061,583 has been used, US$8,938,417 has disappeared in obscure commissions (more than two thirds of the amount disbursed) .
It should be remembered that the Chinese company, CREC-7 had reacted to the IGF report, accusing the latter of bias:
"The IGF shows total ignorance in terms of the construction and modernization of road infrastructures, because ignoring everything civil engineering. The Chinese
have advanced as a reason, the deployment of equipment on construction sites in Grand Kasaï which can take from 2 to 6 months or even more.
But let us ask ourselves this question: What is the use of the feasibility study in a project?
The Chinese company had notably rejected the accusations of embezzlement of US$13 million, claiming to have already advanced US$6.8 million from its own funds.
Report on the work of Félix Tshisekedi in Kasai Oriental
Already last November, taking stock of the Tshilejelu project, the head of the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) and the head of the inspection mission, Emmanuel Tshibingu N'senga had predicted the fiasco of this project, qualifying it as a planned scam.
After the stay of the Head of State in Kasai Oriental which ended on December 7, Félix Tshisekedi personally observed the failure of this project and other work in progress in the province of Bakwanga:
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I am came to see with my own eyes if they worked or not. If they haven't worked, they owe me a relevant explanation, otherwise they will go to prison."
Already the Minister of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation, José Mpanda from Kasai Oriental who was part of the delegation of the Head of State, had described the fiasco well on the achievements of the work in the province.
For him, those who kill Kasaians are Kasaians, especially those who are around the head of state, he went so far as to ask that we clean up the entourage of the head of state where we finds more embezzlers than people in love with common sense:
“In Kasai Oriental we are responsible for the misery of our own brothers, I am talking about us who are at the side of the Head of State. President Tshisekedi has done his part, unfortunately he is surrounded by many hijackers, there are many of his hijackers. Tshilejelu zero, DAIPN zero, Nkwadi zero…, I am not spouting things up in the air, I have just seen all that myself (…
There is no achievement here, the funds allocated to the various projects of individuals are shared. »
