The national deputy Jackson Ausse filed, this Thursday, April 28, at the office of the National Assembly, an interpellation once morest the Inspector General, head of the services of the IGF, Jules Alingete. He is accused of making remarks deemed “offensive” regarding the security situation that the Democratic Republic of Congo has been going through in its eastern part for several years.
Indeed, during a Forum in Houston, Texas (USA), Jules Alingete declared:
“I reaffirm that the DRC is a safe country, there is no war in the Congo despite some pockets of insecurity created in the east of the country by armed groups looting our resources”.
Words that shocked more than one Congolese.
“We were immediately shocked and even annoyed by the words of the head of the services of the general inspection of Finance. And this, not at home but abroad. Inspector Jules Alingete takes the liberty of asserting with ease that there is no war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and if there is war, it is only seen on television or in isolated. It has nothing to do with how big cities work. It is extremely serious. Today we are over 30 years of war. The elements that explain this story is the very presence of a United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. If there is no war in the DRC, what is MONUSCO doing in the DRC so far? If there is no war in the DRC, why are the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri run by military authorities? If there is no war in the DRC, who killed thousands of Congolese in the east of the Republic? The count goes beyond 1 million people killed since the 1960s. If there is no war, who displaced more than 4 million Congolese? said Jackson Ausse Afingoto indignantly.
And to continue:
“This picture as painted by the Head of Public Finance Services puts us at odds with the population. And we as a national representation, we cannot remain silent in the face of assertions that want to veil the situation of violence in the country. As I speak to you, there are bodies strewn on the ground and they have not yet been buried. We are losing our valiant soldiers on the front lines. And the finance inspector ventures to say that there is no war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is an insult to the people of Congo. It is sabotage and spitting on the memory of the thousands of victims who fall every day”.
For the elected representative of Irumu in the province of Ituri, one of the provinces affected by the war, the objective is that Inspector Jules Alingete can enlighten the national representation on his remarks made in Houston, Texas (USA ), ahead of US investors.
“We are touched at the bottom of ourselves. This is how we challenged the Inspector General so that he might come and tell the people what he said in the United States. He has to be able to explain it to the population, maybe we see things badly, maybe the inspector sees in a miraculous way what is happening. We need miraculous explanations. We expect it at the National Assembly,” he continued.
At the same time, Jackson Ausse asked the office of the National Assembly to grant emergency privilege to this interpellation.
“I ask the office of the National Assembly to urgently call us the inspector at the National Assembly so that the Congolese people can listen to him for the second time,” he concluded.
Reacting to the anger and criticism aroused in the DRC by his remarks, Inspector Jules Alingete regrets the fact that his remarks were taken out of context and badly exploited to harm his person.
“The Head of Department deeply regrets the unfortunate use of his remarks by certain people instrumentalized by predators who act in the shadows, still hoping one day to put an end to the hunt of which they are victims and affirms that he has always, like all Congolese, sympathize with the pain of our brothers and sisters in the eastern part of our country, victims of the terrorist barbarity of armed groups, once morest which the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, the GOVERNMENT and the FARDC are sparing no effort for the ‘eradicate,’ reads an update from the IGF Communications Department.
Auguy Mudiayi
