KINSHASA (AFP) — Two men accused of taking part in the murder of an opposition politician earlier this month were arrested Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police said.
The men, one of whom was unnamed and the other identified only as Kadi, were part of a group of 10 people detained in a suburb of the capital Kinshasa.
Kadi been named by a suspect currently on trial over the killing of Daniel Boteti on July 6.
"Kadi was arrested Sunday morning at Binza along with nine other bandits as they were preparing to attack a driver, proceeding in the same manner as during the murder of the deputy Boteti," police chief General Jean de Dieu Oleko told AFP.
Oleko said another of the group was also accused of involvement in Boteti's death.
Soldier Patrick Mwewa is facing a court martial over Boteti's killing, but has accused the governor of Kinshasa, Andre Kimbuta, of ordering the assassination. Kimbuta is due to appear in court on Monday.
Boteti was a member of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former presidential candidate and current senator who was arrested in Brussels in May and appeared before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on July 4.
Bemba is accused of a range of crimes allegedly committed by his men between 2002 and 2003, when his forces fought a coup attempt in the Central African Republic at the behest of then president Ange-Felix Patasse.
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