Selfish Interests Eclipse Political Will To End DRC Insecurity, Says Kagame

By George Kalisa

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has today said that there is a huge possibility of the existence of self-seekers behind the sustained insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Kagame said that for pretty much 25 years, grave obscurity still surrounds the recurrent insecurity in the largest mineral-rich African country, and wondered why it has not yet ended despite multibillion deployments of UN peacekeepers.

“For 25 years or so, Rwanda’s negative forces seeking to destabilise Rwanda still occupy the Eastern region of DRC, the peacekeepers are yet to end the insecurity despite staggering amounts of funds in billions of dollars towards the cause,” wondered President Kagame.

Kagame remarked while presiding over the swearing-in ceremony of the new Minister of Infrastructure Dr. Ernest Nsabimana and State Minister Eng. Patricie Uwase in the same Ministry at Rwanda’s Parliament in the capital, Kigali.

“I fail to understand, therefore, how this DRC problem lingers on to the day unless there are some elements deliberately sustaining it, of course with the help of others in region(…),” added Kagame.