Félix Tshisekedi imposes a new tax on the Congolese on the crossing of the border post of Kasindi (Beni) in the province of North Kivu to the Republic of Uganda.
Félix Tshisekedi imposes a new tax on the Congolese on the crossing of the border post of Kasindi (Beni) in the province of North Kivu to the Republic of Uganda. The general migration management requires anyone, including tomato sellers, a tax of $ 5 USD per person. This Wednesday, traffic between DRC and Uganda experienced significant disruption. Are the relations between Tshisekedi and Museveni suffering?
- dozens of people gathered on the Kasindi border this Wednesday, August 21, 2024, a unpopular decision by Mr. Félix Tshisekedi. Congolese customs officials have just received new instructions emanating from the very high hierarchy imposing a tax-vision to any Congolese citizen wishing to cross to Uganda.
- exigate the payment of $ 5 USD (five US dollars) to each individual, including women sellers of food and other basic necessities, is simply criminal. The crossing of people has always been free at all the borders of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
- The customs tax has also been readjusted for carriers and other traders. All day on Wednesday, customs activities were strongly assigned to Kasindi.
- In early June, import and export activities had been paralyzed at the same border post in Kasindi-Lubiriha, in the territory of Beni. Handle trees had demonstrated by burning tires on the large arteries of the city, in protest against an idea of relocation of a salty fish market from the Kasindi border post to neighboring Uganda.
- Another climate of tension had reigned in the same month of June between the military information service (halfip) and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise Kasindi-Lubiriha, a border city located 90 km from the city of Beni. Tension following the arrest, the day before, of the manager of the DGDA in Kasindi and his logistics manager by the local service of the ex-Demiap.
"It smells bad in relations between Museveni and Tshisekedi"
simaro Ngongo
President of Case