Jubilation at the Makala prison in Kinshasa Friday as Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi pardoned at least 26 men, who were convicted for planning the assassination of ex-president Laurent Kabila in 2001.
They include Colonel Eddy Kapend, a prominent figure, Nono Lutula, a former special advisor on security and Leta Mangasa, and a former head of the National Intelligence Agency.
Tshisekedi freed the men through a presidential decree read on state television over the weekend. He said the pardon was out of humanity, compassion and national reconciliation .
The ex-Congolese president, Laurent Kabila was assassinated at the presidential palace in Kinshasa on January 16, 2001.
Despite a long probe into his murder, the exact circumstances of Kabila’s assassination is still in contention.
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