The mutiny that broke out on Monday January 9 around midday in Bukavu
lasted for about one and a half hour. It was defused after
negotiations with the mutineers. The mutiny was caused by the
mutineers' perception of Kinshasa's double standard, according to
information pieced together by Bukavu residents. Apparently, "Kabila's
soldiers billeted in Bukavu are better and regularlarly paid, whereas
Bukavu's units eke out a living with miserly salaries sporadically
paid," my relative told me over the phone.
Though the shootout had abated in the afternoon, electricity was cut
off in the evening in the provincial capital. This blackout scared
city residents who remained holed up in their homes.
2) Kabila's twin sister elected MP in Kalemie, in Katanga Province
Independent MP candidate Jaynet Kabila, the president's twin sister,
was elected MP in Kalemie, one of her family's strongholds in
Katanga--the other stronghold being Manono, where her younger brother,
Zoe Kabila, also an independent candidate, is poised to win. (The
incoming freshmen parliamentarians will feature an interesting cast of
generational "reproduction" of the Congolese political class:
Tshisekedi's sister and son have also been elected in their stronghold
of Oriental Kasai. Pierre Bourdieu readily comes to mind...)
Jaynet Kabila got 35,569 votes (the first in the constituency),
whereas the MP-elect who trailed her came a distant second with 10,648
votes.
CENI Chair's son, Emmanuel Ngoy Mulunda Nyanga, also an MP candidate
in the same constituency, was third with 9,413 votes. Some in Kinshasa
Radio-Trottoir think CENI Chair Rev Daniel Ngoy Mulunda Nyanga is
actually "the" Ngoy Mulunda Nyanga elected in Kalemie! I spent close
to a half-hour today trying to dispel such nonsense uncannily uttered
by university students!
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