OPEN LETTER TO CARDINAL MONSENGWO

Open letter to Cardinal Monsengwo(by Mashidiko Munoko Ngoy, Honorary MP and University Professor)
(LA PROSPERITE, 01/05/2012)

I am a Congolese citizen, Mashidiko NGOY MUNOKO, Honorary Member of Parliament, Professor of my state, Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Munich (Germany) with two side branches: Political Science and Sociology and Chair of the NGO / Asbl "Maisha ni Maendeleo Foundation " in acronym " Foundation MENEM. " As one of your flocks, called Catholic and believing in the power of the Lord God and the redemption by the Lord Jesus of Nazareth, I always cherished the hope that you, as pastor of Holy Church in Congo you lead the people of God in this country to peaceful meadows. I mean peace not merely the absence of clash of arms, but also a peace of heart, deep inside, that cannot be obtained without a sincere reconciliation with God, the Church itself, the neighbor and the environment.

However, your current position on the introduction of democracy in our country produces in me a serious disorder. Indeed, I expected from you a message above the hurly-burly politician, a message calling all the sheep to understand the experience of democracy, like any human process, carries irregularities which must be corrected peacefully in the time. Your position should be that of a Wiseman in the village. But, alas! Your statements look like you throw oil on the fire. Worse, you partner with the secular powers of oppression of our people to destabilize the ongoing effort for the start of our country to economic well-being and to social progress. If Mr. Tshisekedi thinks he won the popular vote, so why, a very great lawyer he is, he refused to present his evidence to the Supreme Court of Justice of our country? It is well known that foreign oppressor States want the authorities of the Third Republic they accuse of treason because they have decided to appeal to other development technologies, including China, to try to catch up the outrageous delays that our country suffers. The willingness of these powers is to not release the Congo, their cash cow. For them, the emergence of new partners in Congo means an intrusion on their turf field, an unbearable competition for their ailing industries and economies in decline. They fear the drying up of subsidies they gain through the imposition of an unequal exchange and looting of raw materials. Clearly, the West will never accept by heart the emergence of Congo. And so it is not with them that the Congolese patriots like you had to fetch instructions. There is no stereotype that must prevail in Democratic Congo. Formerly the northern powers have invaded our country under the pretext of introducing civilization (sic). Today, they are ready to reoccupy it in the pretext of introducing "true" democracy "resic." It's hard to imagine that a native pastor, even the unpatriotic, cannot understand the importance of the issue in question, the issue of a crucial moment to throw off the yoke of centuries that keeps us in a situation of sub-humans. But, nay, perhaps all political opposition better than I understand the issue but their "ego" is stronger than their "patriotism."

Indeed, the history of our martyred country shows that the oppressors have always had foreign collaborators and indigenous believers. Indeed, during four centuries of enslavement of the Congo, the Popes of Rome have blessed the ship designed to carry the youngest, most beautiful and strongest of our ancestors to the Americas, and on-site traditional leaders defectors received firearms for hunting to man and supply the slave. During the looting of the Congo by Leopold II, the missionaries were silent when he mutilated our ancestors killed and exhausted by the harvest of ivory and rubber. During the colonization of our fathers, the missions have collaborated to corporal punishment and discrimination that was practiced even in schools and churches during services.

More recently, at the time of the events of 1960, the Catholic Church mounted to the plate against nationalism, Cardinal Malula incited the nascent led dictatorship to assassinate the nationalist Lumumba and the princes of churches. The church organized grandiose cult to implore God to protect the dictatorship that has blocked the development of our country and allowed the recovery of our independence by neo-colonial politics.

By examining your behavior seriously, I think you have a problem of choice between religion and politics. But no one can serve two masters at once. Are you basically a religious leader or political leader? The flock of Catholics in the Congo is entitled to the truth. Asked about this, our Lord Jesus of Nazareth said clearly that we must render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's. Your recent failure in policy should, in my opinion, give you directions to determine your choice. Indeed, you had to chair the meeting in Congolese National Conference to make the transition to democracy. I am writing that I created with eleven of my colleagues at the beginning of this Conference, an informal parliamentary group in defense of popular sovereignty in order to deter other colleagues in the "sovereign" state, arguing mainly that 1 ° sovereignty belongs to the people which gives limited terms of sovereignty according to the specific terms, that the statement 2 ° would be a soft unworkable coup d’Etat given the existing balance of power and 3 °, nevertheless, the conference was to involve President Mobutu to go to the democratic monitored elections. In front of the sling political rumblings and agitators who had invaded the conference, I decided to go abroad, abandoning even the attractive "per diem". Instead, you have joined the option of a sovereign conference and the results, everyone acknowledges, was the impasse of total failure. I am still convinced today that the adoption of our views would have saved the Congolese people the disastrous convulsions of the end of the Mobutu era of dictatorship.

At this crucial moment in the history of our people, it seems unfortunate that you choose a policy of confrontation, which again leads to a failure with its share of unforeseen tragedies. Also, I invite you to pull yourself together and reorient your position towards the reconstruction of our country for the happiness and welfare of our people who, for thousands of years, has suffered so much. The dustbin of history is too full of the son of the Congo, I would be happy not destine you  to know.