Kinshasa, May 5th, 2025 (CPA)- Three soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of criminal abortion were heard on Monday before the Gombe garrison military court, during a mobile court hearing at Camp lieutenant-colonel Kokolo, in Kinshasa. “I never had sexual relations with the head of the De Kitona intelligence service, Captain Laurent Kamba,” said defendant Esther Nambola, questioned in the first hearing. « I didn’t have an abortion either. It’s true that in the previous minutes, I confessed that I had, but these confessions were extracted by force, because the general who was interviewing me had threatened to sack me if I didn’t accept that I had an abortion », she added. She told the court that she couldn’t get pregnant because she had been wearing a contraceptive implant since June 8, 2023 until March 2024, when she was forced to remove it due to regular heavy bleeding resulting from the side effects of this technique.
Jérémie Bidulu, who is a nurse in Kitona hospital, confirmed that he had received Mrs. Esther in March for health care. Her colleagues pointed out that Esther Nambola had been impregnated by her trainer and subsequently aborted in complicity with the nurse Jérémie Bidulu, the third defendant.
Under the law, this act is punishable by imprisonment. ACP/