Cet article publié en fevrier 2006 confirme la rumeur selon laquelle Joseph Kabila serait garder par des militaires du Zimbabwe. La derobade du gouvernement de Zimbabwe à repondre à cette question prouve à suffisance le caractère non-officiel de cette mission et surtout prouve à suffisance la veracité de la thèse qui affirme que Joseph Kabila est le représentant d’une maffia internationale à la tête du Congo. et que ces élections ont pour objectif de couvrir les activités de cette organisation.
author/source:Financial Gazette (Zimb)
published:Thu 16-Feb-2006 / posted on this site:Thu 16-Feb-2006
Article Type : News
Njabulo Ncube, Chief Political Reporter
The government continues to duck questions over the alleged secondment of a crack unit of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) to provide personal security to Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila. Kabila, whose father Laurent Kabila was gunned down by his personal aide, is said to be protected by a detachment of about 50 highly trained soldiers from the elite Presidential Guard of the ZNA, according to press reports which surfaced last August. According to the reports, the detachment was under the command of one Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sauta, “a 5th dan North Korean-trained martial arts expert and formerly the Presidential Guard’s unarmed combat trainer.” Investigations by this newspaper indicate attempts by an opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) legislator to get clarification in Parliament on the alleged deployment of the soldiers to guard the DRC leader have repeatedly drawn blanks from Defence Minister Sydney Sekeremayi.
Parliamentary records obtained last week show that the MDC shadow minister for defence, Giles Mutsekwa, has been trying since October last year to get Sekeremayi to clarify the issue, which has generated international interest, to Parliament. The matter has in fact been deferred several times, much to the chagrin of the opposition. Sekeremayi had been scheduled to answer Mutsekwa’s queries last Wednesday during question time. However, the defence minister failed to turn up for the question and answer session between 2:30pm and 3:30pm. MDC insiders allege the government has been dragging its feet about setting the record straight since Mutsekwa raised the issue, accusing the government, which gobbled several unbudgeted millions when it sent soldiers in August 1998 to fight alongside Kabila’s father, of trying to sweep the matter under the carpet. Parliamentary records show that Sekeramayi has been parrying Mutsekwa’s queries since October 12, 2005.
Parliamentary documents indicate that the MDC legislator wants to know from the government “why a detachment of fifty (50) soldiers under the command of Lt Colonel Richard Sauta is providing close security for DRC President Joseph Kabila.” Mutsekwa also wants to know how payment for such services was being effected as well as the terms of the agreement between the ZNA or Zimbabwean and the DRC government. The MDC legislator also wants the minister of defence to explain how long the soldiers have been performing these duties and whether they are being paid in their personal capacities. “The people of Zimbabwe need explanations and clarification on this issue of national importance,” Mutsekwa told The Financial Gazette. Zimbabwe sent about 11 000 soldiers in August 1998 to fight on the side of the late Kabila, a war which sucked in several other countries. The DRC war began in 1998 and killed more than three million people, mostly through hunger or disease. The state has maintained a veil of secrecy on the military’s activities in the war. It is also still a mystery how many Zimbabwean soldiers perished in the war, which claimed several thousands of lives. Zimbabwean government officials and the army have been linked to serious allegations of illegal money transfers and the purchase of blood diamonds in the former war zones of the DRC.
