(JED/IFEX) – Message de vie Radiotelevision (RTMV), a Kinshasa-based religious broadcaster owned by Pastor Fernando Kutino’s Army of Victory Church (Église Armée de Victoire), resumed its broadcasts on 14 December 2003 after six months of forced silence. RTMV spokesperson Dede Kubiala told JED that “those in charge of RTMV chose to resume broadcasting of their […]
(JED/IFEX) – Message de vie Radiotelevision (RTMV), a Kinshasa-based religious broadcaster owned by Pastor Fernando Kutino’s Army of Victory Church (Église Armée de Victoire), resumed its broadcasts on 14 December 2003 after six months of forced silence.
RTMV spokesperson Dede Kubiala told JED that “those in charge of RTMV chose to resume broadcasting of their own volition since no official act prohibited them from doing so. The station had been forced to close after it was ransacked and its television equipment was confiscated by the Congolese National Police (PNC)” during the events of 10 June.
The broadcaster is operating with equipment newly purchased by church officials. The television equipment confiscated by police special services has not been returned. The police claim they “never confiscated any equipment and that it was in fact looted by delinquents” at the time of the incidents at the church.
JED notes that police special services are lying about the television equipment removed on 10 June. In fact, in a statement made on 11 June to the daily newspaper “Le Potentiel”, Colonel Raus Chalwe admitted that his men had seized the television equipment.
