TSHISEKEDI TELLS DRC CATHOLIC BISHOPS ABOUT THE US$20M PAY-OUT TO BUY ZAMBIA’S SILENCE
It is very sad that Mr Felix Tshisekedi, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), can no longer hide how he has extended his corruption and other abuses in the Congo-DR to the whole region.
In a recent meeting with Congo-DR Catholic Bishops, the visibly annoyed Mr Tshisekedi, divulged to the Catholic Bishops that no matter what they do in opposition to his corrupt, repressive and scandalous regime, he was in total control of the region. He claimed that he had paid millions of dollars to the region’s leaders, except Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa who has refused to take his money, and that in Zambia, a sum of US$ 20 million has been taken from Mr Tshisekedi. He also bragged to the Catholic Bishops that because of these huge pay-outs, none of his critics, political opponents and their supporters, including former Congo-DR president Joseph Kabila, who is currently leaving outside, will be accommodated in any of these countries whose leaders he has captured, and that all critics and political opponents fleeing will be apprehended and sent back to Congo-DR.
We are worried about these revelations. We are worried that if nothing is done, the bells tolling on the people of the Congo-DR will tomorrow toll on us in this region, especially us in Zambia, whose proximity to the Congo-DR is much more and whose leadership seem to have an insatiable appetite for dollars, and are also in a hurry to become big millionaires or if possible, billionaires. If a leader of a country can receive a sum of US$ 20 million of unearned money as a personal gift from a leader of another country whose people are very poor and the country is in turmoil, and ingulfed in an intractable civil war, what does that mean?
We had Mobutu Seseseko, one of the most corrupt and senselessly tyrannical African leaders in history, flashing around millions of dollars he had stolen from the people of Zaire, as the Congo-DR was called then, but none of our leaders in the region took a cent from him. Tanzania’s Mwalimu Julius Nyerere took nothing. Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda took nothing. Angola’s Augustino Neto took nothing. Namibia’s Sam Nujoma took nothing. Botswana’s Ketumire Masire took nothing. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe took nothing. Mozambique’s Samora Machel took nothing. And even South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki took nothing.
But today, our leaders are stuffing their bank accounts with millions stolen from the poor Congolese people. This is what happens when principles are lost. This is what happens when values are lost. This is what happens when greedy reigns supreme. The likes of Tshisekedi and those he is bribing are not leaders. They are something else but not leaders. But as they say, it is just a matter of time before the chickens come home to roost. Those involved in this evil scheme shall pay the price and regret their greedy actions someday soon.
We demand that the Zambian authorities come clean on Mr Tshisekedi’s huge pay-out claims.
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
M’MEMBE ARRESTED FOR SAYING CONGO PRESIDENT PAID $20M TO BUY ZAMBIA’S SILENCE – POLICE
The Zambia Police Service has arrested and formally charged Dr. Fred M’membe, aged 65, for the offence of seditious practices, contrary to Section 60(I)(C) as read with Section 60(I)(B) of the Penal Code Act, Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia.
It is alleged that on July 16, 2024, between 13:00 hours and 14:00 hours, Dr. M’membe published an article on his Twitter and Facebook pages titled “Tshisekedi tells DRC Catholic Bishops about the USD 20 Million Payout to buy Zambia’s silence.”
The content of this article is alleged to have been intended to bring into hatred or contempt or to incite disaffection against the government as established by law.
Dr. M’membe has been detained in police custody and is expected to appear in court soon to answer to the charges laid against him.
The Zambia Police Service wishes to remind the public that the law will be applied firmly and fairly to all individuals, and any actions aimed at inciting hatred or disaffection against the government as by law established will be met with the appropriate legal measures.
Rae Hamoonga
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER.
Mr. Mmembe should now prepare to substantiate his allegations in a court of law.
The law is clear. He who alleges must prove. Membe should know better, let him prove. If not the law should take its course.
Dr. M’membe doesnot make sense anymore. Does he really believe the story of Mr. Tshisekedi and the bishops? It sounds such a childish plot.
Dr. M’membe is in a hurry to be president.
The uneducated are the ones who risk entering in deep waters of trouble when they talk the unacceptables for they don’t understand the consequences but surprisingly some doctor can do that.Do they really love themselves or they are ignorant too.
We rarely read the many things this gentleman writes every day which do not make sense but this is a very serious matter for him to prove these allegations in Court.
If what Mmembe said is not true why should it hurt anybody? The truth is that the Congolese elections were rigged and Congolese president had to get artificial support from some few countries through corrupt practices, anyway it’s a chance for Mmembe to prove his source of information. But how fair is the judicial system going to be? Anyway most Zambians can’t wait for things to change for the better in Zambia! It’s too much of corruption and dictatorship under Upnd! God help us!
Yours is lousy and gutter reasoning. If, in the unlikely event, M’meembe, allowed people to tell lies about the state, he wouldn’t a good President as he would risk the security and integrity of the country. 0
Exactly.
Trumpian behaviour should not be allowed neither is slunder in a civilised society.
If Mmembe has any integrity and his wife and her outbursts had any sense. This arrest and prosecution gives him the opportunity to back his statement and show us that indeed “US$20 million” was paid. Let him explain under oath in Court who what where and when. Empty useless statement inorder to create dissent for political mileage is an immature where to Politik. The kind that we see from leader like Trump that are criminals by use rethoric to sway people by lying. We have a large vunerable section of society and we need politicans that serve not lie to get into office only to loot the state coffers.
Frege meambe is the most wicked individual with a rotten moral fibre who through his defunct post noise paper mounted strong legs and a rigid head to this beast called tribalism Zambia is struggling with. And now he has crossed borders tempering with the international relations Zambia is enjoying. Is really aspiring to one day rule Zambia with such unresponsive utterances, really! God forbid. These opposition do they mean well for Zambia. Recently they pushed another rotten agenda on the Zimbabwe election when Dr Nevers Mumba was appointed as an election observer chairperson for SADCC. They raised rotten sentiments just to sour our hard guarded relationship we have with Zimbabwe. This crop of opposition in Zambia mwe lesa mwaba fumya kwisa. God help us we don’t want this breed of vipers, period!!!.