JKIA, or rather Kenya, had become the hub of smugglers and a conduit for gold from war-torn eastern Congo. Nairobi and Kampala had turned out to be the operation bases for smugglers and for merchants of fake gold. POWERFUL DELEGATIONIt is now known that President Kabila gave the name of Jean Claude Mundeke Kabamba as the man behind the smuggling. Back in Nairobi, the search for the 2.5 tonnes of gold had commenced after it was stolen from DR Congo. By then DR Congo had no capability of tracing artisanal gold and tonnes of gold produced by craftsmen was not under the government’s control.

Source: Daily Nation March 15, 2020 09:00 UTC