{"id":86735,"date":"2024-09-03T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/govt-working-to-have-female-truck-driver-kidnapped-by-drc-rebels-freed-ps-njogu\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:03:20","slug":"govt-working-to-have-female-truck-driver-kidnapped-by-drc-rebels-freed-ps-njogu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-working-to-have-female-truck-driver-kidnapped-by-drc-rebels-freed-ps-njogu\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt working to have female truck driver kidnapped by DRC rebels freed: PS Njogu"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 3 \u2013 Kenya is working to secure the release of the female truck driver who was recently kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Kinshasa-backed Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florence Wanza Munyao, 45, who hails from Machakos county was abducted on August 27 at noon in DRC\u2019s Kiseguro area.<\/p>\n

Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Principal Secretary Roseline Njogu said in a statement Tuesday that Nairobi is \u201cwell seized\u201d of the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe [Kenya] are well seized and appropriate action is being taken,\u201d PS Njogu said.<\/p>\n

The statement came hours after Parliamentary Service Commissioner Johnson Muthama called for government intervention to ensure Munyao\u2019s safe return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am asking Prime Cabinet Secretary, Musalia Mudavadi\u00a0, who also serves as the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to urgently secure the release of Grace Wanza Munyao, a Kenyan citizen and truck driver who was kidnapped by the FDLR, one of Kinshasa\u2019s coalition forces on August 27, 2024,\u201dMuthama said.<\/p>\n

On August 29, the M23 rebel group said that the kidnapping of the Kenyan truck driver by the FDLR was in violation of the ceasefire agreement in the ongoing conflict in the eastern DRC.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Wednesday, M23 Spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka accused the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and allied troops who are fighting alongside rebel groups including FDLR and the Wazalendo militias OF breaching the ceasefire \u201cdeliberately\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kanyuka also implicated peacekeeping troops, including the National Defense Forces of Burundi, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) forces, and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), in the said violations.<\/p>\n

He called on the international community to intervene, stating that Kinshasa\u2019s actions threaten ongoing peace efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) calls on regional leaders and international partners, whose efforts to resolve the conflict in Eastern DRC are increasingly jeopardized by this latest deliberate ceasefire violation,\u201d Kanyuka said.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the M23 blamed the FDLR for continuing to disrupt local agricultural activities through kidnappings and looting.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 3 \u2013 Kenya is working to secure the release of the female truck driver who was recently kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Kinshasa-backed Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels. Florence Wanza Munyao, 45, who hails from Machakos county was abducted on August 27 at noon in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}