(NDIMA/IFEX) – The Kinshasa satirical journal “Pot Pourri” has reported that two of its journalists have been apprehended by security agents. The paper’s editorial staff reported that both the director and editor of the publication, Achille Ekele Ngolmya and Guy Kassongo Kilmbwe respectively, “disappeared” on 15 June 1998. It suggested that their detention was connected […]
(NDIMA/IFEX) – The Kinshasa satirical journal “Pot Pourri” has reported
that two of its
journalists have been apprehended by security agents. The paper’s editorial
staff reported that both the director and editor of the publication, Achille
Ekele Ngolmya and Guy Kassongo Kilmbwe respectively, “disappeared” on 15
June 1998. It suggested that their detention was connected with the paper’s
denunciation of the “misappropriation of a piece of machinery officially
presented to the head of state.”
A tractor recently presented to President Laurent Desire Kabila, along with
a batch of agricultural equipment acquired by the DRC for its battered
farming economy, had allegedly been spirited away to a Kinshasa warehouse.
“The social editorial team of `Pot-Pourri’ deplores the practices used by
the powers that be to prevent journalists from doing their job and
denounces the illegal detention of these journalists,” the paper said.
