Fizi territorial security council removes more than 20 illegal roadblocks and detention cells

Fizi’s territorial council and the local VDP coordinator removed more than 20 roadblocks between Fizi-Centre and Misisi, along with 15 illegal detention cells, according to territorial administrator Sammy Kalonji Badibanda. He said some roadblocks were operated by bandits posing as VDP members and that Wazalendo fighters in some areas were ordered to join the front. More than 200 young volunteers registered to join the national army, the FARDC. Civil society groups have for months denounced the spread of fee-charging roadblocks on the RN5 between Makobola and Kilembwe.