Accused of seeking constitutional change to hide governance failures, Jean-Claude Tshilumbayi countered on Friday evening during a Live Space X hosted by Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala. He laid out a detailed inventory of what he portrays as the achievements of the current administration since 2019.
On the social front, the first vice-president of the National Assembly highlighted free primary education, which he says brought 6 million children back to school, and free childbirth coverage for 2.5 million Congolese women.
Regarding the civil service, he revealed that the UDPS inherited in 2018 one million civil servants hired without payroll numbers or salaries during Shadary’s electoral campaign, plus 400,000 ‘new units’ who had received no pay for years.
‘We paid them all,’ he stated.
The health record is equally striking: the country had 1,700 doctors earning $300; now there are 7,800 paid $2,400. Magistrates earning $400 and police officers receiving only $80 per month have seen salary increases.
On infrastructure, Tshilumbayi claimed the construction of world-class universities, seven major hospitals including Mama Yemo Hospital (abandoned since 1917), 1,500 schools, several airports, and an extension of the road network from 3,000 to 9,000 kilometres in seven years.
As for the national budget, he said it grew from $3 billion to $18 billion over seven years, with foreign exchange reserves ‘simply exploding’.
‘To say the constitution is being discussed to mask a governance failure is a ridiculous debate,’ he concluded, then posed what he considers the real question: ‘By what means should our people express themselves?’
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