Misinformation overdrive, confusion, and lingering questions over Tshisekedi Plane Stories

A Radio-Okapi report posted today--here, Tuesday, November 22--says that Tshisekedi has finally fliown to Mbandaka fron Kindu--without giving any precision on the type of aircraft the UDPS leader boarded.

Pro-Tshisekedi media assert it was the same chartered jet pro-Kabila media alleged to have been recalled to South Africa. (Some readers here think I'm cooking these stories myself. I am not. Media here are so partisan you end up totally misinformed and confused at times.)

Radio-Okapi report did in fact broach the issue of the strange 3-day stay of Tshisekedi in the backwater of Kindu, which fuelled a frenzy of speculation and disinformation in pro-Kabila media--with me as one of the unsuspecting casualties, though this comes with the territory and the buck stops with me, as the saying goes, and I take full responsibity and I apologize for relaying false information. While I don't conceal my utter contempt for Tshisekedi and what he represents, I am not however in the business of producing fake news.

Be that as it may, the fact remains that questions still linger over the Jet Stories of Tshisekedi and the 3 days squandered in Kindu, a hostile environment to Tshisekedi (there are credible reports of "incidents" and "intolerance" against him during his stay in the provincial capital of Maniema).

Anyway, still according to that Radio-Okapi report, one of Tshisekedi's top aides accompanying the UDPS leader on his campaign tour told the press they spent 3 days in Kindu to negotiate another contract for chartering a DC 3 aircraft! Is this a joke or just madness? Four days before the end of the political campaign?

No matter how you want to look at it, this campaign was bungled from the word go!