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Siku chache baada ya Serikali ya DR Congo kuonesha nia ya kumfungulia mashtaka ya uhaini na makosa ya kivita pamoja na kumhusisha na Kundi la Waasi wa M23, Rais wa zamani wa Nchi hiyo, Joseph Kabila (53) amesema inachofanya Serikali ni utawala wa mabavu.
Kabila amemkosoa Rais kwa kudhoofisha Katiba, Bunge kwa kushindwa kumwajibisha Rais, mfumo wa Haki kutumiwa kwa malengo ya Kisiasa, pia amekosoa Serikali inavyoshughulikia masuala ya uchumi, ufisadi na Deni la Taifa, ambalo alisema limepanda maradufu hadi zaidi ya Dola Bilioni 10.
Amesema “Jeshi la Kitaifa limebadilishwa kuwa Vikundi vya Mamluki, Makundi yenye silaha, Wanamgambo wa kikabila na majeshi ya kigeni ambayo si tu yameshindwa kutimiza majukumu yao bali pia yameitumbukiza Nchi kwenye machafuko yasiyoelezeka.”
Maamuzi ya Serikali ya Aprili 2025 ya kupiga marufuku chama chake cha People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) na kuamuru kukamatwa kwa mali zake, Kabila amesema “Yote hayo yanaonesha kushuka kwa Demokrasia katika Nchi yetu.”
Kabila ambaye alikuwa madarakani Mwaka 2001 - 2019, amesema ameamua kuzungumza baada ya kuona umoja wa Nchi yake unaelekeza pabaya.
Pia, Wachambuzi wa Siasa wameeleza inawezeka hatua za kumshtaki Kabila zikichukuliwa zinaweza kuzidisha machafuko nchini humo hasa wakati huu ambapo Serikali inaendelea na vita dhidi ya M23 tangu Mwaka 2012.
Serikali ya Rais Félix Tshisekedi haijasema chochote kuhusu kauli ya Kabila ambaye ameitoa kupitia YouTube bila kueleza yupo eneo gani.
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DR Congo ex-leader lashes out after immunity lifted for treason charges
Joseph Kabila, the ex-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has lashed out at the government of his successor - calling it a "dictatorship".
The 53-year-old made a 45-minute speech live on YouTube on Friday evening from an unspecified location a day after the Senate lifted his immunity from prosecution.
DR Congo's authorities intend to charge the former president with treason and war crimes, linking him to the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, who have taken control of several towns in the east.
Kabila, in power between 2001 and 2019, said he had broken his silence because he felt the unity of the country was at risk.
Analysts say any trial of Kabila could further destabilise the country, which has been battling the M23 rebellion since 2012.
The government of President Félix Tshisekedi has not responded to the speech in which Kabila also set out a 12-point plan that he said could help end decades of insecurity in the mineral-rich east of DR Congo.
Dressed in a navy suit with a Congolese flag badge pinned to his lapel, Kabila stood before a lectern in what was termed an "address to the nation" - a broadcast topped and tailed by the national anthem.
The YouTube link shared by his spokesperson has subsequently been deleted, but the recording has been shared by numerous other accounts.
Once an ally of Tshisekedi, Kabila fell out with his successor and their parties' coalition formally ended in 2020.
The former president has been living outside the country for two years - he initially left to pursue a doctorate in South Africa.
During his speech, he hit out at "arbitrary decisions" taken by the government last month after "rumours" that he had travelled to the eastern city of Goma.
This prompted the authorities to ban his People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and order the seizure of his assets.
It all "testifies to the spectacular decline of democracy in our country", Kabila said.
During his speech, he did mention that he intended to go to Goma "in the coming days", where he is not in danger of arrest as the city has been under control of the M23 rebels since January.
Kabila also hit out at the president for trying to undermine the constitution, at parliament for failing to hold the president to account and at the justice system for allowing itself to be "openly exploited for political end".
He was critical of government's handling of the economy, corruption and public debt, which he said had "skyrocketed" to more than $10bn (£7.3bn).
Kabila, a former general, was also disparaging about the government's handling of the security situation countrywide, especially the use of pro-government militias as "auxiliaries" of the armed forces.
"The national army… has been replaced by mercenary bands, armed groups, tribal militias, and foreign armed forces that have not only demonstrated their limitations but also plunged the country into indescribable chaos."
He mentioned that one of these armed groups was the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an ethnic Hutu militia involved in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and still active in eastern DR Congo.
Rwanda sees the presence of the FDLR rebels as an existential threat. Rwandan troops are currently in DR Congo in support of the M23, which is led by ethnic Tutsis who say they took arms to protect the rights of the minority group.
Kabila urged the withdrawal of "all foreign troops" from DR Congo and welcomed a recent decision by Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to pull out troop that had been deployed to help the army fight the M23.
Source: BBC
