Kinshasa, May 27th, 2025 (CPA).– An informant on Tuesday enlightened the High Military Court on the use of weapons seized in the plot against the Head of State, at a hearing held at the Ndolo military prison in the north of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘The informant has just brought light to the high military court, firstly on the weapons seized from the thugs who claimed that they were weapons from elements of the Mobondo group, whereas the person who had brought these weapons there had no authority to negotiate with the so-called Mobondo. The high court has now been enlightened about the use of these weapons and the circumstances in which they were seized at the Prince Kin hotel’, said Brigadier General Martin Kalala Kapuku, chairman of the panel.
He added that the court was also enlightened about the participation of the defendants who denied having taken part in the events, i.e. about the circumstances of the arrest of each defendant. ‘In short, the High Court obtained the information provided by the intelligence officer of the intelligence headquarters’, added the president of the composition. In addition, the High Court also received the report of the judicial police officer (OPJ) addressed to the public prosecutor.
‘There are people who have not been named in the said report, namely 12 of the 40 people prosecuted for conspiracy to destroy legally established institutions in the DRC’, continued the presiding judge, while proceeding with the roll-call of each defendant, who recounted the circumstances of their arrest. Some of the defendants were not arrested by the intelligence headquarters, but rather in their units and transferred directly to this service’, said the report.
It should be remembered that 40 defendants are appearing in this case, including Brigadier General Ericson Inyengele Bakati of the Republican Guard unit, and that the plot was preceded by several meetings held at the Prince Kin Hotel in the Bandalungwa municipality.