DR Congo: Candidate Rex Kazadi Unveils Five Pillars For The Country’s Development If Elected President
November 29, 2023
By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman
Kazadi intends to build the Congo of tomorrow by creating new infrastructures, overhauling the school curriculum, promoting vocational training and skills development, opening new chambers of trade to support training centers and young people. Photo courtesy
The electoral campaign continues as normal throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Presidential and deputy candidates are gradually presenting their plans to win the confidence of voters.
For his part, Rex Kazadi, one of the 25 candidates for President of the Republic, yesterday unveiled in the capital, Kinshasa, his vision of a society capable of developing the country.
This project revolves around five essential pillars, namely : - security and territorial integrity; - justice: a new generation for a new leadership; - economic emergence; - rethinking the healthcare system; - improving education to build the Congo of tomorrow.
As for the second pillar relating to Justice, he suggests abolishing the Senate and reducing the size of the government to 12 ministers and 12 secretaries of state. For Rex Kazadi, this is a way of doing away with budget-grabbing institutions and reducing the cost of living of institutions. He also proposes proportional justice for the National Assembly and the presumption of guilt for ill-gotten gains.
For the third pillar, linked to economic emergence, Kazadi plans to boost purchasing power by creating jobs, encouraging entrepreneurship and financing micro-businesses, and facilitating loans. He also proposes the creation of a sovereign fund for industry and entrepreneurship, the development of agriculture, rethinking agri-food and how to feed the Congolese, the development of fossil fuels, making energy a priority, promoting micro-dams, hydro-electricity and natural gas, auditing and mapping forests.
The fourth pillar is called "overhauling the healthcare system". Here, Rex Kazadi proposes the creation of health centers, mutual insurance for all, free childbirth and care for war victims (women, children and displaced persons).
The last pillar, education, is where Kazadi intends to build the Congo of tomorrow by creating new infrastructures, overhauling the school curriculum, promoting vocational training and skills development, opening new chambers of trade to support training centers and young people, and combating discrimination against women.
