As soon as the schedule was announced, Patrice Emery Lumumba’s remains were postponed indefinitely. The reason from the authorities is the health crisis. Jean-Jacques Lumumba, the grandson of the father of Congolese independence, calls for transparency in the cost of these ceremonies.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi was to travel to Brussels to attend a first ceremony in ten days. The tooth, because it is, would then be presented for tributes in several cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the end, none of this will be, officially due to the third wave of Covid-19. This was announced by the Congolese Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge on Friday in the Council of Ministers, and which was also confirmed on the Belgian side on Saturday by his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo. From the side of the Lumumba family, get reactions. In addition to this conversation launched by his grandson and anti-corruption activist Jean-Jacques Lumumba to clarify the budget for these ceremonies. The Democratic Republic of Congo, he explains, is not in a position to incur exceptional costs.
I think the opportunity is taken to clarify national and international opinion on the use of the $ 16 million sum for these festivities. Congo is a poor country with many priorities (…) that lack everything. And I think this postponement will make it possible to clarify all these gray areas, because we should not use the memory of Lumumba or the repatriation of the relics of Lumumba to frustrate the people. for it will be a happy event in honor of this great African.
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