CONGO-KINSHASA: PRESIDENT MOBUTU OFFICIALLY OPENS NEW POLICE CAMP IN KINSHASA-LEMBA.

Record ID: 347380

  • Title: CONGO-KINSHASA: PRESIDENT MOBUTU OFFICIALLY OPENS NEW POLICE CAMP IN KINSHASA-LEMBA.
  • Date: 27th May 1967
  • Summary: MOBUTU ARRIVES; REVIEWS POLICEMEN; TSHISEKEDI; SAPWE; MOBUTU CUTS TAPE; CAMP. Initials TS/VS/JF/MM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th June 1967 13:00
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  • Location: KINSHASA-LEMBA, CONGO-KINSHASA
  • Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Reuters ID: LVA9RIV1MC48MKNUBRGIOCQJ4TR7
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT MOBUTU RECENTLY OPENED CONGO-KINSHASA'S NEW NATIONAL POLICE CAMP AT KINSHASA-LEMBA. THE CAMP IS TO BE NAMED AFTER HIM, THE NATIONAL POLICE CAMP LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JOSPEH DESIRE MOBUTU.

    THE MODEL CAMP CAN ACCOMMODATE 600 POLICEMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE IDEA FOR THE CAMP WAS PROMOTED BY PRESIDENT MOBUTU.

    AT THE CEREMONY WAS INSPECTOR-GENERAL SAPWE, WHO THANKED THE GOVERNMENT AND THE A.I.D. FOR THEIR HELP IN THE BUILDING OF THE NEW CAMP.

    THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, MR. TSHISEKEDI, STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NATIONAL POLICE FORCE OF CONGO-KINSHASA AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE PLAYED BY THE POLICEMEN.

    ACCOMPANIED BY THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, PRESIDENT MOBUTU INSPECTED THE POLICEMEN. LATER, SURROUNDED BY OFFICIALS, HE CUT THE RIBBON TO OFFICIALLY DECLARE THE CAMP OPEN.
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