The Congolese whistleblower, Jean-Jacques Lumumba, is under pressure again. The former BGFI banker and uncle of the independence hero is worried about his safety and his family.
Since his 2017 revelations about BGFI, the bank for which he worked, Jean-Jacques Lumumba reports on a whole series of incidents between France, where he lives in exile, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the tenants of his house have been called several times by the police for quick action.
At a recent press conference, the whistleblower condemned that corrupt practices in his country lasted even though they switched heads of state. Together with RFI, he believes that there can be no coincidences. His words are the origin of the various incidents he causes here.
“There are, in fact, a number of incidents and threats that I received quite clearly after my press conference on Saturday in Brussels that do not make people believe that this is simple crime. We started with the theft of my computers, there are my tenants who are threatened and some parts of ANR [Agence nationale de renseignements] is mentioned there and it is my vehicle that is burned. I have just lodged a complaint about all these facts and all this shows that they are not trivial acts. In any case, I hope that it will not go further than that, but these are the facts that prove to me sufficiently that it is not a simple crime because the course of events is quite worrying. ”.
