Two cannabis suppliers arrested with 10 sacks in Matadi
On 14 March 2025 police in Matadi arrested Mavambu Kitsofi, alias Muke Tonga, and FARDC adjutant Barumé Moïse during Operation Ndobo, seizing 10 sacks of cannabis and kraft paper rolls used for retail packaging.
On Friday 14 March 2025 police in Matadi, Kongo Central, arrested two cannabis suppliers
during Operation Ndobo.[1][2]Radio Okapi named them as Mavambu Kitsofi, known as Muke
Tonga, and Barumé Moïse, an adjutant-chef at the headquarters of the 12th military region
of the Congolese armed forces (FARDC).[1]
Officers seized 10 sacks of cannabis and presented the men to the press the same day,
Radio Okapi said.[1]Each suspect was caught with five sacks and rolls of kraft paper
used to pack the drug for retail sale, according to the provincial police commissioner.[1]
Okapinews reported that police apprehended Moïse and a civilian it named Mavambu Kinzonzi,
alias Moke Tonga, with roughly eight sacks and packaging paper during the same operation.[2]The provincial commissioner warned that some security force members were involved in the
illicit trade.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Radio Okapi said each suspect had five sacks, totalling 10; Okapinews described about eight sacks for the pair and spelled the civilian’s alias Moke Tonga and the soldier Bahume Moïse.
Neither report gave the weight per sack or a court outcome.
Provincial commissioner Israël Kantu Bakulu said both men were repeat offenders but did not detail earlier cases.
Security services incinerated at least five sacks of hemp seized from shops in Biakato, along with high-strength alcohol and expired goods, at a public ceremony at the local stadium on 7 October 2026; no sellers were named or arrested in the reports.
Security services intercepted 17 packages of cannabis at the SNCC freight yard in Mwene-Ditu on 4 September 2026 as they were about to leave by train toward Katanga. Mayor Gérard Tshibanda Kabwe watched them burned at city hall alongside urban security council members and SNCC officials.
On 16 December 2025 Kinshasa’s judicial police narcotics unit seized 56 sacks of cannabis hidden in a container during checks at Mitendi, west of the capital, and arrested suppliers with more sacks and kraft paper used for retail packs.
Customs officers at N'djili airport in Kinshasa seized 476 cartons holding 2,985 kilograms of cannabis biomass that was about to be exported without a declaration. The DGDA named Instadose Pharma DRC SARL as exporter and said the firm had medical cannabis licences but no export authorisation.
