Kinshasa, 20 January, 2024 / 9:35 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) have called on new leaders elected following the 20 December 2023 general elections to “build a new Congo”, noting that the country is already riddled with many challenges.
In a statement issued Tuesday, January 16, CENCO members said, “Our country is in danger, no nation can be built on contempt for moral values.”
“In view of the many socio-political, economic and security challenges facing our country, the DR Congo, we appeal once again to the competent bodies responsible for ensuring stability, justice and national cohesion, to use their wisdom and conscious intelligence to build a new Congo, in unity and peace,” Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said.
On December 31, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) declared President Félix Tshisekedi winner of the Presidential poll with 73 percent of the vote as opposed to 18 percent that his main rival, Martin Fayulu, garnered.
In their January 16 statement, Catholic Bishops in DRC called on the President to “be the guarantor of national unity and territorial integrity”, adding, “We will make our contribution to help him succeed in his second and final term for the benefit of the Congolese people.”
