The General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) detects an embezzlement of nearly 400,000 dollars within the Congolese Ministry of Primary Education. This fund was allocated to the organization of the first African school football championship in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For this school competition initiated by the International Federation of Football Association (Fifa) and organized in Kinshasa, the Congolese State provided funding of more than one million dollars. Of this amount, the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST) received $400,000 to help organize the event. Unfortunately, “the finance inspectors discovered” in particular “that out of an alleged payment of 120,000 dollars to Transco (public public transport company) for the rental of the buses, only 16,000 were actually given to this carrier”, denounced the head of the IGF.