Tshuapa 2/ Discrimination against non-native managers: educationels recalled to Kinshasa

Tony Mwaba, Minister of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education, summoned officials from the Tshuapa 2 educational province to Kinshasa.

The services of this educational province are now placed under the supervision of the Tshuapa 1 educational province.

The minister has also suspended payment of operating expenses for the provincial offices of the EPST Tshuapa 2. This is the gist of his letter addressed to the governor of Tshuapa Province on Wednesday, November 23, 2022.

“I instruct the Secretary General, who is copied on this letter, to recall to Kinshasa the provincial officials of the EPST Tshuapa 2 educational province and, consequently, to place the sub-provincial entities (subdivisions,inspection pools, SECOPE branches, Sernie branches) falling under this educational province, as well as the staff of the provincial offices, to the supervision of the Tshuapa 1 educational province.

These decisions follow the EPST head’s dissatisfaction regarding the intolerance and xenophobia faced by senior officials in his ministry who are not native to Tshuapa Province.

Minister Tony Mwaba noted in his letter that this attitude runs counter to the principles and laws of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“This unacceptable attitude, instigated by certain well-identified political actors, violates the fundamental principles established in the Constitution and the laws of the Republic,” Tony Mwaba wrote to the Governor.

The minister, acting in the best interests of the public, asked the governor to take appropriate measures to ensure that these practices, which undermine national unity, are discouraged and their perpetrators severely punished in accordance with the law.

Cephora Kokanzo