(JED/IFEX) – The National Police’s Kinshasa Provincial Criminal Investigation Unit (Inspection provinciale de la police nationale ville de Kinshasa, IPK) has released the names of journalist Bapuwa Mwamba’s three presumed killers. Mwamba was killed at his Kinshasa/Matete home on the night of 7 to 8 July 2006. The suspects are soldier Vungu Mbembo, also known […]
(JED/IFEX) – The National Police’s Kinshasa Provincial Criminal Investigation Unit (Inspection provinciale de la police nationale ville de Kinshasa, IPK) has released the names of journalist Bapuwa Mwamba’s three presumed killers. Mwamba was killed at his Kinshasa/Matete home on the night of 7 to 8 July 2006.
The suspects are soldier Vungu Mbembo, also known as Manassé, who is a deserter from the former Zairian Armed Forces Artillery Brigade, Mangenele Lowayi José, a former poacher, and Kunku Makwala Sekula.
The three individuals are well-known to the criminal investigation unit. They were arrested on 25 July in the port city of Matadi, the main city in Lower Congo province, where they apparently fled after the crime.
Three mobile phones and a loaded FA gun, which may be the murder weapon, were found in the suspects’ possession.
According to General Patrick Sabiti, provincial inspector of the Kinshasa police, the accused are also suspected of being the same criminals who reportedly burglarised Bapuwa’s home on 8 March 2006. In that robbery, two mobile phones, a laptop computer and US$850 were stolen. The police believe Bapuwa was killed in a botched robbery attempt.
The case files of the three accused will be transferred to the Military General Prosecutor’s Office of the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC), which will commence preparatory legal action.
