

RDC: Lamuka – Le Coordonnateur – Declaration de Lamuka sur les propos Expansionistes de Paul Kagame, President de la Republique du Rwanda (19.04.2023)






“I have been baptized by fire but I am firm. What I am asking is, why should Agnes Nandutu be committed to the High Court when the lower court has the mandate to deal with this?” – Minister Agnes Nandutu (19.04.2023).
“The State Minister of Karamoja Affairs Agnes Nandutu, has been remanded to Luzira Prison until 3/05/2023 on charges of Dealing with Suspect Property following the diversion of Iron sheets meant for the Karachunas in Karamoja Subregion” (91.2 Crooze FM, 19.04.2023).
Some people think they can do a magical trick and make things vanish. If you cannot see or touch it. It has just disappeared…. The same fashion plenty of the Ministers and MPs involved in the Mabaati or Iron Sheets Scandal are thinking. They are hoping the scandal goes out of sight and out of mind.
There have now been three ministers who has been touched, charged and spent in detention. These have been followed up and one was arrested out of hubris. When you are investigated and looked into by fellow Parliamentarians, you should just show up. Instead the Minister ended up in prison and pleading for mercy.
Alas, they were participating in a scheme. They did steal government property and did so with firm hand. All of them knew what they did, but they never thought that it would amount to anything. Heck, they just thought it was another Tuesday…
However, the President and the Authorities had another plan. The way this is moving and how the selection of Ministers are happening. It begs to question, why these? When there is like 48 more people to pick? What is so special or unique about these?
Nandutu is the third one now. All of them has been humiliated and taken into custody. They have gotten touched by the law and are facing charges. Nevertheless, I expect the state to just rinse and repeat. They are the chosen and appointed elite. These politicians will be off the hook and not be kept incommunicado or in safe-houses for months on end. Neither will they be charged in Military Courts or have unfriendly judges on their case. No, they will be shielded of the worst and only made as an example. Just to make it look they are fighting corruption….
She is just a nice flashy person to apprehend and keep in custody. Just like they did with the two previous ones. There is another minister behind bars now and a third one just released on bail. So, it makes it look like they are doing something. However, there are far more prominent ministers and high ranking officials who is implicated in this scandal. They are walking free and without any sort of legal jeopardy around their way.
That’s why you know this a “Point Blank” joke and a mockery attempt of “rule of law”. It is a show piece and a “we did this” sort of statement. This is the “dope on the table” sort of vibe. Yes, the police got the dope and could show it off. However, they never stopped the illegal transactions, the importation of drugs or the connects from getting new loads of illegal substances across the borders. Therefore, the ideals of showing of the dope is pointless. When it is only theatre for bosses and the mayors, but not doing anything to stop the illegal trade from happening.
That’s what the arrest of Nandutu seems to be for me. A pointless exercise to look like the authorities are doing something. While we know it will be “much ado about nothing”…. That’s just the way it goes and the sun will rise tomorrow again. Peace.










We, in the Forces of Freedom and Change, continued our efforts to quell the strife that sparked the war in our country, which entered its fourth day today.
Since that fateful hour, the situation has rapidly deteriorated, the human tragedy is exacerbated, and the danger of losing our country’s unity, sovereignty, and cohesion is increasing hour by hour.
In this context, we have intensified communication today with the tripartite and quadruple mechanisms in support of their initiative to reach a humanitarian truce for 24 hours, and we have communicated with the leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, urging them to accept this proposal.
This resulted in positive stances issued by them that were announced, and the discussion is still ongoing about the provisions of this armistice and the creation of mechanisms to ensure its success, which we encourage and work to support.
We also welcome the statement issued by the resistance committees and the political, civil and professional forces, which brought together a wide spectrum of the forces of the revolution, and stressed their common position against the war and against the plans of the remnants and with the development of joint mechanisms between the forces of the revolution in order to take the initiative and not allow any party to destroy and fragment the country.
We call in the forces of freedom and change for the need for all local and international forces to unite to address the humanitarian catastrophe that resulted from the outbreak of battles in Sudan, and we stress the need for the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to commit to facilitating access to hospitals and main facilities. Providing humanitarian aid and basic services, not tolerating the violations that occur and holding the perpetrators accountable.
Finally, we stress the need to isolate the speeches of the remnants of the defunct regime that spread speeches of fueling war and igniting it with a desire to return to power over the ruins of the country, and we will continue to confront them and prevent them from fragmenting the country and its unity. The revolution that sent them to the dustbins of history is still burning in the breasts and will not be extinguished by the bullets.
Executive Office of the Forces of Freedom and Change
April 18, 2023 AD

We are in the resistance committees and the civil, democratic, political and professional forces, and further to our first statement issued on the fourteenth of this April, we are issuing this statement while our country has slipped into the furnace of total war in which the generals launch their cannons to destroy everything and everything, which was used in which excessive violence by the regular forces is a tool to resolve the dispute and the struggle over power, which is contrary to the rules of democratic transition and peaceful rotation of power.
We affirm that despite our differences in political visions, we are completely united on the anti-war stance and its continuation, and the anti-For the return of the remnants of the former regime to the political scene.
We call for an immediate end to the war, silencing the sound of the guns, and not accepting its results, whatever they may be. We also stress the need for the unity of the revolutionary forces in the face of the plans of the remnants, and their relentless pursuit of domination over the country again, even if it costs tearing it to pieces, and we assure them that their endeavor will be disappointed. And that they will never return, for the glorious December revolution that uttered them is still alive and kicking.
In this regard, we intend to agree on a joint mechanism to follow up developments, coordinate positions, and address everything that endangers the security and safety of our country and our citizens.
The two parties agreed to the armistice that was previously announced by the United Nations, and did not specify safe passages to evacuate the stranded, nor did it work to protect medical personnel, nor did hospitals spare them, and we consider that everything that is happening is contrary to international humanitarian law, and the four Geneva protocols, and we hold the parties to war –
Full responsibility for any violation of human rights.
We renew the call to all the forces of the civil revolution to take the initiative and unite to condemn the war operations, and call for their immediate cessation, and not to leave the homeland prey to the will of the military and the remnants of the former regime, and to mobilize to declare a political strike and comprehensive civil disobedience, this- It is the duty of the hour that we must all rally around, and not allow discourses of sedition, fragmentation and hateful hatred to tear this country apart and undermine its unity, sovereignty, safety and dignity of its people.
Signatories:
1- Hajj Youssef Neighborhood Committees Gathering
2- Coordination of the old Omdurman resistance committees
3- East Nile South Coordination
4- Industrial Area Resistance Committees
5- Resistance Committees – Wad El Nil
6- Al-Dali and Al-Mazmoum Resistance Committees – Sennar State
7- The Arab Socialist Baath Party – the original
8- The forces of freedom and change
9- The Republican Party
10- The mechanism of uniting the forces of the revolution
11- Baladna Movement
12- Apostasy alliance is impossible
13- Civil Coalition for Justice Transitional
14- Sudanese Professionals Association
15- The Trade Union of El-Neelain University Professors
16- The gathering of the professors of Al-Neelain University
17- University of Khartoum professors initiative
18- Gathering of professors of the University of Gezira
19- Gathering of professors of the Sudan University of Science and Technology
20- Gathering of Professionals and Professors of Imam Al-Mahdi University
21- University of Khartoum Engineers Association and Network
22- Sudan University Engineers Assembly
23- University of Khartoum Alumni Conference
24- Sudanese Bankers Association
25- Gathering of workers in the oil sector
26- The Tax Office Professionals Association
27- Administrative Officers Gathering
28- The Sudanese Craftsmen and Workers Gathering
29- Solidarity of Sudanese trade unions
30- The Sudanese Civil Society Organizations Confederation
31- Student Movement Alliance
32- Bahri Youth Initiative
33- SAS Center for Human Rights
34- Garfna movement
35- Women’s political and civil groups (Mansim)
36- North Kandakat block
37- The Kandakat block east of the Nile
38- Kandakat Block Omdurman
39- Kandakat Bahri block
40- Women of Freedom and Change Platform
41- Democratic Women’s Union
42- Female guards
43- Abu Hajjar Resistance Committees
44- Resistance Committees – Duweim
45- The Civil Democratic Transition Bloc
46- Gathering of professors of Omdurman Islamic University
47- The Steering Committee of the Subsidiary Body of the Workers Union at the Ministry of Agriculture
48- Marine Biology Committees
49- The Student Struggle Front
50- Gathering of professors of the University of the Red Sea
51- Coordination of the White Nile Resistance Committees
52- The Revolutionary Forces Unity Alliance, White Nile State
53- A strong civil alliance in the Nuba Mountains
54- Sudanese Teachers Committee
Tuesday
April 18, 2023