Flori Chebeya
Kinshasa media report that the widow of Flori Chebeya, Anne-Marie Mangbenga, has set the funeral date of her murdered husband for Saturday, June 26. No doubt, this announcement was greeted with a sigh of relief by Kinshasa authorities who feared that the family would follow the call by some rights groups to have the funeral on June 30, Independence Day!
In a statement released June 14 and signed by family spokesman and veteran rights activist Flory Nyamwoga Bayengeha, the widow informed the public that the wake is now being held at the deceased’s residence at 15bis Avenue Démocratie, in the neighborhood of Binza Ozone, in the Commune of Ngaliema.
The statement states that, having received the necessary authorization (including the death certificate) from the Attorney General to retrieve the body from the morgue [which is usually done in the Congo on the eve of the funeral], the family was inviting people willing to participate in the funeral arrangements to contact the family directly.
But the statement immediately next adds that:
“Otherwise, public statements made outside of this framework of consultation with the family will only bind their authors.”
In the meantime, the killers of Chebeya remain at large and the whereabouts of his driver, Fidèle Bazana Edadi, still unknown. It seems that the investigation by the special security services of the National Security Council is stuck, without any valuable lead, despite arrests. Faced with international pressure, did the investigators arrest the wrong guys? The mystery thickens by the day…
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