Jacques Djoli proposes the limitation of artisanal exploitation and the revision of the mining code to promote industrial exploitation-DRC
In his intervention during the examination of the report of the parliamentary commission dispatched to South Kivu more precisely in the territory of Mwenga in order to collect information on the illicit exploitation of minerals by foreign companies, the national deputy Jacques Djoli suggests the limitation of artisanal exploitation for the benefit of the industrial exploitation of minerals in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He specified that the insecurity but also the fights between groups have only one objective the concern of wanting to control the mining squares. According to him, these armed groups never had the ambition to conquer the power of Kinshasa even less at the local level.
“The work of our colleagues shows that we are in a country where there is no law and the problem they pose, for example they have proposed that we can suspend all mining activity in South Kivu may seem a timely solution but the essential question Mr. President is the link between the exploitation of mineral resources and the violence of armed conflicts, the proliferation of armed groups, when we talk about the map of South Kivu we have 64 armed groups with the 65th We see that these armed groups are around the mining areas and the fighting between armed groups is not political fighting, they do not target the power of Kinshasa not even the power of Bukavu, when they come to Bukavu , they come s’have fun and they get out their problem Honorable President, it is the control of their mining circuit so from the North of the Democratic Republic of Congo to North Katanga I say Nynzu all this part is infested with armed groups who are fighting for n ‘ is it not the mining resources “said Jacques Djoli last Thursday November 18th.
Jacques Djoli was also worried about the fact that at the time with only copper, Gécamines contributed enormously to the state budget, but today with a high rate of exports in the mining sector, the country’s GDP does not does not always improve to the desired level. This MLC executive insisted on the need to set up several parliamentary committees to restore order in the sector.
“Mr. President, you remember that Gécamines exported 300,000 tonnes of copper and with 300 or 400,000 tonnes. It participated in 90% of the national budget, today with all these companies that have arrived, we export 1 million 600 thousand tons and if we take the cobalt, we take the gold, the mining sector is not able to bring 12% of the gross national product. So there is a serious problem and I believe that the proposal of our friends c ‘was an information commission, it belongs to us because the Honorable Lumeya if we send a commission of inquiry reduced to the space of Mwenga it will not advance us. We need a large commission to control the mining sector to know thatdoes this sector? Everyone says it can bring us at least 60 billion USD but it does not come. We will wait every year for the government to come and tell us these stories.We take the responsibility of multiplying commissions in these areas South Kivu, North Kivu even the state of siege the objective is war but it is it is a mining war. We are not going to finish it by sending soldiers “, he insisted.he hammered.he hammered.
Faced with this situation, Jacques Djoli thinks that it will be necessary to revise the Congolese legislation in this mining sector in order to adapt it to the dimensions of the country.
“It is up to us to come up with a real mining code that meets our needs, artisanal exploitation, the liberalization of the sector poses the problem, the industrial sector is not developed. Banro left because every day, there was the Kidnapping of his foreign personnel, he could not continue and who organized these Kidnapping? It is these diggers with the military in the name of the interests, they will ban mining or reduce it to the maximum, today industrial exploitation c ‘is 27% and the rest is the artisanal sector which exploits or which exploits in fraud, withdrawing the titles is not the solution because the gold which is underground there is not the artisanal exploitation which will allow the Congo to become rich,We need large companies and for that we must limit artisanal exploitation as much as possible, promote industrial exploitation, protect these large companies; they will hire young people, ”he suggested.
The report of the parliamentary committee dispatched to South Kivu, more precisely to the territory of Mwenga in order to gather information on the illegal exploitation of minerals by foreign companies was adopted during the plenary session on Thursday, November 18, 2021. The conclusions of the mission carried out from September 8 to 14 will be transmitted to the government.
