newly elected national MP Gérard "Gécoco" Mulumba, a member of the
Presidential Majority, appeared on national TV to announce his
resignation from parliament.
The reason?
Well, Gécoco claims that former Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito, who has
just been elected MP, has bilked the state of millions of dollars to
build a vast real estate empire in Kinshasa--which, he alleges, is
just the the tip of the iceberg of Muzito's massive theft.
"I don't want to be sitting next to someone who didn't declare his
assets between his stints at the budget ministry and at the
premiership, and [not even] today at the end of his tenure," said
Gécoco, who is a hero in the eyes of Kinois who've long admired his
straight talk and blunt language.
Gécoco even showed photographs and video clips of some of the 57
mansions Muzito is alleged to have built or purchased at various sites
in Kinshasa.
"I also asked my subsitute not to sit in parliament either," Gécoco
angrily said. "I am and remain of the [presidential] majority... My
gesture is to tell profiteers enough's enough!"
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