June 2010 Vol 15, Eastern and Central Africa
DRC main opposition party's president is in Zimbabwe for a regional Tour
Harare-The Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition Party, National People's Patriotic Party of the Congo/DRC President Sapard Vincent-de Paul Mozes Mulumba Tshimankinda Ngandu KALALA is in Zimbabwe for a regional Tour to lure support ahead of the country's election due next year.
Harare-The Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition Party, National People's Patriotic Party of the Congo/DRC President Sapard Vincent-de Paul Mozes Mulumba Tshimankinda Ngandu KALALA is in Zimbabwe for a regional Tour to lure support ahead of the country's election due next year.
In an interview with journalists in Harare on Monday Sapard Vincent-de Paul Mozes Mulumba Tshimankinda Ngandu KALALA blamed DRC president Joseph Kabila of failing to respect human rights by following dictatorial policies. He said it was against this back ground that he had decided to challenge him in the next presidential elections to be held in June 2011,hence his SADC regional tour starting with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to tell regional leaders that Joseph Kabila had failed
his people.
"I am confident that if SADC leaders whom I respect so much during my tour see that my policies are equal to what they are striving for, that is of seeing Africans enjoy freedom in their African countries, are going to support me," he said. Asked how much confidence he had in getting support from SADC leaders most of them belong to revolutionary parties and anti-foreign sponsored opposition parties he said he was going to convince them that he was not a rebel but wanted to bring rule of law in DRC.
"I am going to tell them that I am not a rebel, I want to bring back democracy which our fore fathers including Joseph Kabila's Late Father Laurent Kabila.They will accept me because SADC's constitution promotes democracy which has been eroded in DRC under the current regime which is worse than that of Mobuto sese Seko.
DRC Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mwawampanga Mwana Nanga last told a Zimbabwean Daily paper that Sapard Vincent-de Paul Mozes Mulumba Tshimankinda Ngandu KALALA was a small boy in DRC politics who had not people's support. The 55 year old President of National People's Patriotic Party of the Congo/DRC said Kabala was expropriating the country's rich natural resources
for his own benefit reducing the nation to a world misery.
