Via Actualite.cd: RDC: Oly Ilunga placed in police custody. The Google translation:
Former Minister of Health Oly Ilunga has been detained since Saturday 14 September 2019 at the National Coordination of the Judicial Police. Police sources say that the former minister wanted to leave the country illegally in order to escape justice, told NEWS.CD Colmonel Pierrot Mwanamputu, spokesman of the Congolese National Police (PNC).
Dr. Oly Ilunga was heard in early September by the judiciary in a survey on the use of public funds allocated to the response to the Ebola outbreak. In 13 months, the outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people.
Appointed in December 2016, the doctor resigned on 22 July, after the coordination of the Ebola response was withdrawn by President Felix Tshisekedi.
While minister, Oly Ilunga also opposed the introduction of a second vaccine manufactured "by actors who showed a manifest lack of ethics", according to his words. The rejected vaccine is a manufacture of the Belgian laboratory Janssen, a subsidiary of the American Johnson & Johnson.
