Reports from Kivu indicate that Julien Paluku(pictured) the Governor of North Kivu appointed, Saturday, June 15, Christopher Ndibeshe as new Provincial Minister of Justice, Rights and Community Rehabilitation.
Ndibeshe replaces Francois Ruchogoza who resigned two weeks ago to join the March 23 rebel Movement (M23), according to sources close to the governorate.
Prior to his appointment, Ndibeshe was the executive secretary of the provincial government.
Ruchogoza resigned following the defection of his political party of the Presidential Majority (MP).
He said on June 3, that his party had left the presidential majority to pressure the provincial government to restore peace in the provinces.
“This is in accordance with the decision of the political leadership of the CNDP including myself, who decided that we were leaving the province.
Last time there was the beginning of hostilities in North Kivu, we pressured the Congolese government to cease hostilities and virtually the Government replied in the negative.
That is why the political leadership of our party decided that I leave the government, “he said.
But he denied any desire to join the M23, indicating that his party, the Congolese government’s CNDP requires compliance with the agreements of 23 March 2009 which provided in particular the integration of former rebels of the CNDP in the police and the army and that of his senior civilian in the country’s political institutions.
These agreements also provided for the return of Congolese refugees living in Rwanda and Uganda.
These same claims are made by the M23, a politico-military movement created by mutineers from the Congolese army in May and who faces the Congolese soldiers in North Kivu.
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