Sylvestre Ilunga calls on justice to take up the incident of Bakata Katanga militia in Lubumbashi and to prosecute the perpetrators and co-authors.

Sylivestre Illunga

The katanga flag

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Hours after the incursion of Bakata Katanga elements into the city of Lubumbashi, Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba brought together all security officials and government officials involved in this security sector. The prime minister condemned these acts by calling on justice to set the responsibilities of the perpetrators and co-authors of this incursion into downtown Lubumbashi.

... This foray is a work of insurgents who attacked the post office square and the locals of RTNC Haut-Katanga, using women and children as shields. The Prime Minister insists that all responsibilities should be unfailing for the perpetrators, co-authors and accomplices of these acts said Gilbert Kankonde Malamba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and Security.

According to the VPM from the inside, security services must strengthen the security of persons and their property so that such situations do not happen again in Haut-Katanga.

According to the provincial government, this is an attack by militiamen loyal to the warlord Gideon Kyungu who disappeared at the end of March last in Lubumbashi City in an attack that his men simultaneously carried out at the capital of the Haut-Katanga and other cities in the Katanga region including Kasumbalesa, Likasi and part of Lualaba. 32 people were killed including a policeman killed in Lubumbashi.

In this Saturday's attack, authorities say they have recovered ′′ 7 weapons, several arrows and machetes, and Gédéon Kyungu's bad boys.

In the morning, militiamen were prevented from raising the 'Katanga' flag at Poste Square in downtown Lubumbashi. The situation has returned to normal early afternoon in Lubumbashi. The mayor of the city called the population calm and freely go to his occupations.