NB Mining Africa Condemns threats of attack against its agents
NB Mining Africa, established in the province of Haut-Katanga, condemned the threats of insecurity which weighed on its agents for a few months.
speaking at a press conference this Monday, August 24 in Kinshasa, Pascal Beveragi, Chairman of the Board of NB Mining Africa, illustrated these threats with the latest home-made bomb attack against the Deputy CEO of this company on the night of the 17th. last july.
” I wanted to bring you together today following a new particularly painful episode which affected one of our closest collaborators, the Deputy Director-General, to whom I renew all my support and my confidence. He was the victim. of a willful and deliberate act which attacked the physical integrity of his person by means of an explosive device launched against his personal and family home in Lubumbashi during the night of July 17, “ he said. Explain.
For him, there is no doubt. this attack has only one objective: “to destabilize the interests of NB Mining Africa”.
“A serious, very serious attack which has destabilized us all, which has remained anonymous and which unfortunately forms part of a stopover of actions aimed at destabilizing the interests of our company NB Mining Africa of which I am the chairman of the board of directors . “, he adds, insisting that” This attack, obviously, underlines a desire to harm our interests, our legitimate interests “.
NB Mining Africa says it has filed a complaint with the competent local authorities so that the perpetrators of this attack can be identified. The judicial investigation is still in progress.
Pascal Beveragi hopes that as soon as possible, the Congolese justice will be able to bring new elements on this file to get their hands on the driving forces of this act and to enlighten society on several questions which so far remain unanswered.
“We must react, we must sensitize the police and judicial authorities, it is the reaction of any citizen who is the victim of an extremely serious attack. The investigation is underway. We hope that we will quickly have encouraging results allowing us to identify the perpetrators. “, he concluded.
About NB MIning Africa
NB Mining Africa (“NBMA”) is a Congolese mining company, is regarded as one of the leading contract mining and civil earthworks service providers to the mining industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company also has operations in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa.
NB Mining Africa is now the leading mining and civil engineering contractor for the RDC’s largest companies. It has one of the country’s largest ranges of equipment: excavators of up to 360 tons, 25 to 100-ton dump trucks, drill rigs, motor graders, bulldozers, loaders, backhoe loaders, sprinklers and many others.
NB Mining Africa headquarters are based in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has subsidiaries in Guinea Conakry, Ghana, Zambia, Angola, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates.
In 2018 NB Mining Africa employed an average of 2.000 employees, excluding contractors.
