In Congo-Brazzaville, the head of state, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, dismissed nine magistrates during a meeting of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) which he chaired on March 27, 2023. The CSM did not specify the reasons for this dismissal. But actors from civil society, invite to go further, in particular, to fight corruption.
At the end of the ordinary session of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, which he chaired on March 27, 2023, the Congolese Head of State Denis Sassou-Nguesso dismissed, demoted, and reprimanded several magistrates.
In total, nine of them were dismissed, for reasons not specified by the Superior Council of the Judiciary. But without uttering the word, the head of state referred to corruption among senior justice officials.
“The conclusion we draw is that there is a worm in the fruit. And we must destroy it. Perhaps not only in the justice sector but in all sectors of the state,” said the first Congolese magistrate who, for years, has claimed that corruption has plagued the country.
These statements made Maixent Hanimbat Emeka, head of the Forum for Governance and Human Rights (FGDH), react. He calls on the president to do much more.
“As a civil society actor, I will not be hypocritical in shedding crocodile tears over the fates of unscrupulous judges, he underlines. Moreover, it must be said that beyond the judicial system, the worm that is in the fruit is in the administration with financial indelicacy, with electoral fraud. All this is linked because magistrates are often arrested to cover up electoral fraud”.