Kinshasa, November 17th, 2025 (CPA).- The process of disseminating legal texts relating to grassroots security governance was launched on Sunday in Buta, the capital of Bas-Uele province in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the CPA learned on Monday from a press release.
« Today’s event marks the official launch of the dissemination of legal texts relating to the creation, organisation and functioning of local and provincial security committees. It is particularly significant, given that it is taking place at a time when our country is engaged on all fronts to defend its territorial integrity and offer its people a just and lasting peace, especially in the eastern part of the country, which is still occupied by the Rwandan army and its AFC M23 auxiliaries, » said the Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, quoted in the ministry’s press release.
In this action, Jaquemain Shabani reiterated the priorities in the country’s security sector. ‘Reform of the security sector is one of our country’s main priorities. This must lead to security governance that places people at the center of all public action, with a view to their stability and social well-being, in accordance with the vision of the President of the Republic,’ he said. Decrees relating to the functioning of provincial and local committees The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Homeland recalled that the Government of the Republic is committed to establishing a defense and security policy based on six strategic functions: knowing, preventing, anticipating, deterring, protecting and intervening.
‘To this end, Decree No. 22/44 of December 6th, 2022 on the creation, organization and functioning of provincial and local security committees gives concrete expression to these principles and formalizes good practices in security governance in territorial management,’ he said. ‘In order to ensure that security meetings are organized effectively and efficiently at all levels, from the province to the village, including our neighborhoods and streets, with the involvement of the population, on November 4th, 2024, I signed two orders implementing the aforementioned decree,’ explained Deputy Prime Minister Shabani.
For the Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, the Government’s security policy is intended to be inclusive and participatory. ‘From this day forward, security meetings will be held in a restricted format on a weekly basis, with the participation of all service managers, and expanded security committee meetings will be organized on a monthly basis, in which non-state actors will now be required to participate,’ said Jacquemain Shabani. To date, 3,307 local actors have already been trained. Bas-Uélé thus becomes the ninth province to benefit from this initiative. The next stage is planned for Haut-Uélé, where a similar activity will be held on Wednesday, November 19th, this year. CPA/