A very black Maundy Thursday for Kinshasa football club DCMP

(PHOTO: Mangled Toyota RAV-4 in which three DCMP soccer players died

on Maundy Thursday)



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There was not so much as a peep on Kinshasa streets in terms of

comments on the extraordinary landmark UN Security Council resolution

2098 (2013) creating an "Intervention Brigade" to be based in Goma,

but so much fuss over the deaths on Maundy Thursday of three players

of the football team Daring Club Motema Pembe (DCMP) in a traffic

accident on the 14th street of Limete where they were allegedly

broadsided by a military truck.



The three players pronounced dead at the scene were the international

goalie Guelor Dibulana, and strikers Hugues Muyenge and Mozart Mwanza.

They were all riding in the Toyota RAV-4 SUV of their teammates,

Mbidi.



The whole team was coming out of Maundy Thursday mass celebrated at

St. Dominique Parish in the Limete Commune.



Well, DCMP archrival is Vita Club whose president is the infamous

rogue Gen. Gabriel Amisi aka Tango-Four, suspended a few months ago as

FARDC ground forces chief based on a damning report issued by the UN

Groups of Experts.



And Vita Club supporters aren't buying the itinerary or the cause of

death of the deceased players.



"They weren't coming from Maundy Thursday mass," Vita supporters

maintain. "They were coming from the house of a 'nganga' who gave them

'nkisi' to win the Easter match against Vita. As it turned out, the

'nkisi' backfired; hence these preventable deaths!"



I hear that there are bloody running battles pitting "Imaniens" (DCMP

supporters) against "Vitaclubiens" (Vita Club supporters) over this

uncharitable version of the deadly accident.



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PHOTO CREDITS: Via radiookapi.net