DRC: Minister of Mines suspends Director General of the mining cadastre for “insubordination”
The Minister of Mines, Willy Kitobo, has decided to suspend the Director General of Mining Cadastre (CAMI), Jean-Félix Mupande Kapwa. In a correspondence of Thursday, January 07, addressed to the latter, the minister indicates that the management control work carried out by his auditors revealed several dysfunctions in this service of the Ministry of Mines which are caused by the centralization of power around the DG of the mining cadastre.
The minister also accuses him of being the basis of several decisions taken “unilaterally”, without consultation of the supervisory authority and even of his own collaborators.
“The work of controlling the management of the Mining cadastre carried out by my auditors indicated several dysfunctions in this service of the Ministry of Mines which originate in the centralization of power around the Director General who decides alone without consulting the supervisory authority and even of its own employees Of course, you took advantage of the absence of the members of the Board of Directors who, in accordance with article 8 of decree n ° 17/005 of April 03, 2017 on the statutes, organization and functioning of an establishment called the mining cadastre, have the broadest powers to carry out all administrative and disposal acts related to the corporate purpose of CAMI and subject to the authorizations or approvals of the responsible Minister,the latter take all decisions of the CAMI concerning the operations of acquisitions and real estate alienations, the preparation and the presentation of the budget and the balance sheet “, indicates the correspondence of the Minister of Mines.
The Minister deplores the fact that the DG of CAMI refuses to execute his decisions and those of the extraordinary meetings of the supervisory body with the general direction of this service of the Ministry of Mines.
“I note that despite all my efforts, you refuse to carry out the decisions of your supervisory minister and the decisions of the extraordinary meetings of the supervisory authority with the General Directorate of CAMI”, he said in his correspondence.
As a result, Minister Willy Kitobo suspended him from his functions until further notice and asked the deputy director general of this service to assume his interim.
“Non-transparency is a sign of bad governance and is inadmissible in the field of mines in accordance with the law in force. Moreover, your insubordination behavior being gross negligence, you are suspended from your functions until further notice. I instruct, during this time, the Deputy Director General who reads me in copy to assume your interim and ask the latter to work with my Director of Cabinet to produce a report of the elements requested in my correspondence … “, decided The Minister.
As a reminder, under articles 12 of the revised Mining Code, CAMI is responsible for the management of the mining sector as well as that of mining titles and quarries and placed under the supervision of the Minister of Mines. These main missions constitute for him core cadastral and legal activities, to which are added those of support such as IT, human resources and financial resources.
