The provincial director of Customs and Excise (DGDA) in North Kivu, Paul Kayembe Ndingu, prohibits the entry of goods transhipped from the Kasindi-Lubiriha border into the Beni territory.

He announced this decision during his visit last weekend to this border post, the main point of importation of goods in the Beni-Butembo region.  

Paul Kayembe Ndingu considers that transhipment encourages fraud and causes a loss of revenue for the public treasury. 
 

"The observation is bitter regarding the cargo that enters our country, the treatment and even the result, it has not worked. It is necessary that we change our way of doing things and our work system. From now on, all the transhipped cargo will be completely unloaded at the entrance. We do not have confidence in the transhipment process through the transit countries," he explains.

 Director Paul Kayembe Ndingu therefore invites all services, including security services, to assist customs officers so that "this type of cargo is fully unloaded upon entry into our territory" and not in neighboring Uganda.