La Voix made, Jean-Jacques Wondo could not hide the still palpable consequences of his nine months’ imprisonment in the ducts of the halfip, the Congolese military intelligence, a service led during his arrest by the general, of Belgian nationality, Christian Ndaywell. The two men have known each other for years. Ndaywell, as a true enthusiast of the Galonné world, has long interfered in Belgium in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Wondo. But from May 23, 2024, everything changed. Four days after a strange coup attempt in Kinshasa, Jean-Jacques Wondo will be interviewed to have appeared on an old photo alongside the main author of this improbable putsch, General Mobutiste self-proclaimed Christian Malanga.
Belgium could no longer be silent
Jean-Jacques Wondo was quickly arrested and presented as the “brain” of this night attack against the residence of the President of the National Assembly Vital Kamerhe and against the Palace of the Nation, seat of the Congolese presidency, emptied at the time of the facts.
Judged with the other putschists, Jean-Jacques Wondo was sentenced to death on September 13, 2024, a confirmed sentence on appeal on January 27, 2025, “While the file is absolutely empty and even the lawyer for the Republic claimed the liberation of Jean-Jacques”, testifies Me Carlos Ngwapshi, his lawyer.
Several sources point to the responsibility of the younger brother of the President of the Republic, Jacques Tshisekedi, coordinator of the internal security of the Head of State, as the main manager of what Jean-Jacques Wondo presents as “A diabolical politico-judicial cabal “.
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“Their death is not inevitable”
In front of European parliamentarians, Jean-Jacques Wondo revealed part of his ordeal. “”I didn’t say everything. Far from it “he explains in his exchange with Free. But his remarks bear witness to the violence and the inhumanity that rampant in the “secret” dungeons of Ndolo, the Detention Center of the Halfap.
“President Tshisekedi had promised to close these illegal dungeons. A promise remained a dead letter. Worse, these clandestine places of suffering have multiplied “, explained Mr. Wondo.
The conviction pieces hidden in the Belgian file sentenced to death in Kinshasa
He continues: “JI saw the death closely. I heard the mouth of a halfipa jailer, seeing someone who had just died in a cell and that one threw like an animal‘They are less opponents for President Tshisekedi’.
Before the MEPs, he will explain again: “JI assisted, helpless, in the agony of Colonel Musukusuku. I rubbed shoulders with the retired general Sikatenda Shabani, 82, who has just died this June 3. Both were knowingly deprived of medical care. […] Their death is not inevitable, it is the fact of a system which chooses to carry out the prisoners slyly by depriving them of medical care. I could be their next victim. “
The fight continues
More than a year after his arrest, Jean-Jacques Wondo always wonders: “Why did I have? What crime I committed? Is it to have scientifically criticized what does not work in Congo? I was detained in unworthy conditions, without access to appropriate care, without the possibility of communicating with mine. During the first days of my detention, I was also deprived of food, drugs and even basic hygiene products.”
Today, back in Belgium, Jean-Jacques Wondo intends to be completely bleached and obtain apology from the Congolese authorities. “”You should know that I have never benefited from any parole measurement for medical reasons, nor from a presidential grace “, he explains to us. “”Jean-Jacques received no notification during his releasecontinues his lawyer. You should know that a prison director can extract an inmate for him to benefit from the necessary care, but he cannot release him without the approval of the political authorities “, He continues to illustrate how the liberation of Jean-Jacques Wondo, as his arrest, is only political.
