DRC: ACAJ calls on Sele Yalaghuli to revert its decree on the distribution of royalties and fees for services rendered to the export of mining products
The Congolese Association for Access to Justice (ACAJ) calls on Sele Yalaghuli to report his ministerial decree, dated March 15, 2021, by which he revised the ministerial decree of October 20, 2017 amending and supplementing the ministerial decree of December 23, 2015 fixing the one-stop-shop for collection and the terms and conditions for the distribution of royalties and fees provided for in remuneration of services rendered to the export of mining products.
In its letter to the Minister of Finance on Monday, March 29, the ACAJ noted that this decree was not passed by the Council of Ministers.
“Your decree was not submitted, beforehand, to the debate of the Council of Ministers, and this in violation of the ordinance number 20/016 of March 27, 2020 relating to the organization and functioning of the government, modalities of collaboration between the president of the Republic and the government as well as between the members of the government. It is not published in the official journal “, indicates the letter of ACAJ.
This NGO also deplores the fact that the said decree allocates 1% to two services that are not yet operational.
“Said decree allocated 1% to each of two public services, namely” the national geological service of Congo (SGNC) “and” the National Agency for the Promotion of Exports (ANPE) “, which are however not operational to date. The ANPE has only just been created and is not yet equipped with facilitators, ”notes the ACAJ.
This NGO is behind the trade unionists who fear an illicit enrichment of ministers and their political offices through this decree.
“The trade unionists complain that the quotas due to the ministries of mines, finance and foreign trade are consumed exclusively by the ministers and members of their political cabinets. And they believe in the illicit and ostentatious enrichment of certain entrants. ‘them at the time when the agents of the administrations hardly receive poverty premiums, denounces the letter of the ACJJ.
Therefore, the ACAJ recommends to Sele Yalaghuli to report his decree of March 15, until his successor, in the Sama Lukonde government, comes to create an independent commission to assess the management of 60% of the royalty since its creation. , abuse and its benefits, imagine a mechanism of accountability in relation to the sums received by each and propose to the Council of Ministers in particular the allocation of a part of the royalty of mining products to the financing of free basic education , consumption by the Congolese of water and electricity, and universal coverage of medical care.
