Kinshasa, June 19th, 2021 (CPA).– Concrete proposals for a resolution of the political crisis in the province of Sankuru, in the center of the DRC, were sent on Wednesday to the President of the Senate Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, with a view to stabilizing the situation there. situation, for the well-being of “Sankurois”, announced the same day to the CPA, the elected national deputy of this entity, Lambert Mende, before flying to Brussels.
To a question on one of the proposals sent to the President of the Senate, the elected representative of Sankuru said to reserve the first for the President of the Upper House and, through him, for the President of the Republic Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, because, has -He continued, Modeste Bahati is the ideal way to reach the supreme authority of the country which holds the key to the institutional solutions proposed by the elected officials of Sankuru.
In addition, the national deputy said he appreciated the postponement, by the Head of State, of the funeral tribute ceremony to be made to “our brother Patrice Emery Lumumba” at the beginning of next year.
He justified this advantage by a glaring lack of infrastructure in Sankuru which would not have made it possible to properly host such a ceremony.
« We are going to put double butchers to prepare and do the best during the 6 or 7 months that are granted to us, so that the relics of Lumumba find a city under construction, when they move to Lumumbaville, » Lambert said. Mende, while deploring the fact that the current provincial authorities spend their time in conflicts, instead of building the province.
« We will try to have the support of the President of the Republic, the government and two chambers of Parliament to get them to work together », concluded the national deputy.
For two and a half years, an unresolved institutional crisis has paralyzed Sankuru, which has so far failed to establish a provincial government, it is recalled. ACP/