- Gérard Gifuza
Gérard Gifuza Ginday has served as governor of
Bandundu province,Democratic Republic of the Congo , sinceJanuary 13 ,2006 . He was nominated to the post by PresidentJoseph Kabila onDecember 10 ,2005 .Bandundu reporter "offends" Gifuza
On July 13, 2006, controversy ensued when a journalist for Kinshasa-based [http://www.digitalcongo.net/Digital Congo FM] , Olivier Komfie Mabwava, was summoned by a Bandundu judge, then promptly arrested with a warrant issued by state prosecutor Kapuba Tshokoyokoyo, for having "deeply offended" Governor Gifuza with remarks made by the president of the provincial union of doctors in a July 6 interview, accusing the provincial governor of "blocking the salaries of health personnel" and inviting "his colleagues to stage a sit-in outside the governor's office." The arrest was protested by Journalist in Danger (
Reporters Without Borders ' Congolese affiliate), and Mabwava was released 48 hours later "after paying a compromise fine of 10,000Congolese franc s (23USD ), which resulted in the withdrawal of charges against him".External links
* [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18275 "Bandundu radio reporter freed after 48 hours"]
Reporters Without Borders , July 15, 2006
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