About 50 people, mostly civilians, are being held in Ndolo military prison without being tried 100 days after their arrests. The Alliance for the Universality of Fundamental Rights (AUDF) denounced this situation during a press conference organized on Friday February 12 in Kinshasa. This human rights NGO pleads for justice to be done for those people arrested in connection with the Simba Ngezayo assassination case.
“We condemn murders, the deaths of men, but what we regret is the mixing of cases, that justice be done for these cases”, pleaded the president of the AUDF, Me Henri Wembolua.
Apart from the 50 people already detained, around 20 others were arrested in the city of Goma in North Kivu. They were also transferred to the military prison of Ndolo, adds the president of the AUDF, who thinks that these arrests would be more related to the differences of land these people and the Ngezayo family.
“Whether we bring people from Kalehe in South Kivu, for facts dating from 2018, 2019, or 2016, to Kinshasa, for facts committed in November 2020, there is a hitch. There is a problem of justice. And we want the rules of procedure to be respected (…) ”, deplores Me Henri Wembolua.
As a human rights NGO, the AUDF promises to continue its advocacy until compliance with the rules of judicial procedure.
“More than three months, it is no longer a problem of investigation. It is no longer a problem of the administration of justice which must take all the time. There are lawyers who are in the file, and who cannot even extract the real documents from the file ”, regrets Me Wembolua.
The Ngezayo family and its relatives refrain from any comment. The Ngezayo case dates back to November 3, 2020, when businessman Simba Ngezayo was assassinated. Following this murder, the General Auditor arrested the alleged perpetrators of this murder, 50 in total, in Goma, Bukavu, and the surrounding area, recalls the AUDF.
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