The former Congolese police chief deemed by human rights defenders to be the number one suspect in the 2010 assassination of a human rights activist, Floribert Chebeya, Indicates a dispatch of Agence France Presse (AFP), was elevated to an honorary title by President Joseph Kabila, so learned KINSHASATIMES.CD this Tuesday, June 6.
This media indicates that the name of the general « Numbi Banza Ntambo John » is on the list of eight senior officers of the police of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) admitted in the national order National Heroes Kabila-Lumumba, an honorary title. « Considering the merits of the persons concerned and their loyal services rendered to the nation within the Congolese National Police », the eight men are raised to the rank of « Grand Officer », according to this decision dated May 16, 2017.
A source close to the Official Gazette, quoted by AFP, would have confirmed this decision.
It should be recalled that in 2011, this officer of the Congolese Police was heard by the Congolese justice as a witness in the first instance. And in September 2016, John Numbi, considered by the US administration as « an influential adviser to President Kabila, » was placed on the US blacklist.
However, in a commemoration at the headquarters of the International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) on the 7th anniversary of this double assassination, the families of Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana said they « keep hope that the truth will burst ».
That is the outcome that the Congolese are expecting. Justice will have to be done in this case to discourage the sponsors of this crime, which cost the life of Floribert Chebeya, whose life has been stopped by the will of an unknown person until then.
Thus, a certain opinion holds, if this decision of the Presidency of the Republic is confirmed and is true, the way of the Civil Society is under risk of being stifled, whereas as of the mouths of several witnesses to the different audiences, the truth was still not there. Unfortunately, this is what should be sought and the presidential ordinance should force justice to dig in the truth again and again in order to find out what is still hiding there.
