MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU SETS THE OBJECTIVE OF RELAUNCHING THE KINSHASA-FIKIN INTERNATIONAL FAIR IN 36 MONTHS
The Minister of Foreign Trade has assigned the mission of rebuilding and modernizing the Kinshasa-FIKIN International Fair within 36 months, through public-private partnerships in accordance with the recovery plan for this public establishment which has the mission of regulating all fairground activities across the Republic, which he will present this Friday to the Council of Ministers.
Victim of the looting of 1991 and 1993, opaque contracts, spoliations and anarchic occupations; therefore an infrastructure considered without a master, the International Fair of Kinshasa-FIKIN which has lost its beauty must be modernized urgently and equipped with a legal framework to properly regulate fairground activities declared Julien Paluku Kahongya while announcing the end of the recreation, because all debtors of FIKIN must now pay and the tenants must be evicted he added with a firm tone.
After reassuring the agents and executives headed by Kennedy Katasi and Didier Kabampele, respectively Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of FIKIN that the Government will examine their specifications, the Minister of Commerce visited the Turkish company Milvest which is slow to launch work to modernize certain infrastructures and the site illegally occupied by the police then the modern city and motel FIKIN which operate with opaque contracts
Note that the Minister has instructed the Director General to organize a major fairground activity in Kinshasa next December.
