« I think I am very proud to have been pinned in a completely illegitimate way by people whose methods I criticize, which are methods of another era. I feel proud to be in line with those of our heroes whom we venerate today because they have suffered what we are suffering today. I feel proud to be an example of those Congolese who resist the imperial temptation, the neo-colonial temptation of certain nostalgic circles, who operate from the Belgian capital, which is at the same time the capital of Europe », so reacted the Congolese Minister of Media, Lambert Mende, Spokesman of the Government, during a press briefing held this Tuesday in his Office.
As for the sanctions, he said: « I have no particular inclination to visit the European countries. Believe it. I went there in the 1980s, compelled and forced, because fleeing the dictatorship that was here in this country. I spent ten years in my life there.
I think I’ve had enough of living there and, when I came back, it was voluntarily. » Before proceeding in this direction: « If I have assets in Belgium, in a bank or whatever, I give it to those who have issued these sanctions …. If I have a square meter, a bank account, may they take it.
I do not feel at all worried, because I do not even have accounts. I closed all my accounts when I came back. I have nothing more to do with those countries where people believe that they can continue to consider us as slaves of modern times. And so, here, in terms of the penalty of the sanction, it is null, « stating that his role is to enforce laws.
And in view of the allegations against him made by the EU, Lambert Mende brandishes the law he has applied.
« … to change a law, you should go to Parliament. It is not by sanctioning a Minister that you will change a law. And therefore, I made a decree pursuant to Law 96, in Article 61 ».