With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe

On February 3, a letter from the IGF lands on the desk of Alexis Thambwe Mwamba. He is asked to provide justifications concerning the use of funds that the public treasury made available to the office of the upper chamber during his mandate, at a time when he was still president of the Senate.

In an annex, a summary table: in total, this amounts to approximately 117 billion Congolese francs, according to IGF sources, or roughly 80 million U.S. dollars when accounting for fluctuation periods.

On February 9, he who, in the meantime, was forced to resign, responds by stating that he received under his mandate only approximately 105 billion Congolese francs (12 billion less, therefore, than what appears in the summary table) and he shifts responsibility to the technical services of the Senate to provide supporting documents regarding the allocation of this sum.

The response brings a smile at the IGF, where they say they eagerly await these justification documents. With this matter, add a few officials from the Ministry of Finance, "we will learn to have those responsible to whom we hand over funds from the public treasury sign receipt documents."