Joe Ga said with a grin, "Why doesn't the government army have the advantage in North Kivu Province?"
"Because those guerrillas are cunning!"
"You're right…"
As he spoke, Joe Ga coughed lightly and said, "But a more important reason is that the government forces are too poor. Can you acknowledge that?"
As the deputy minister of national defense, Ngira decisively said, "No, our soldiers are very good fighters, we just don't want to repeat the tragedies of the past decades."
Joe Ga understood what he meant. If a major purge was conducted, the government's power was barely sufficient, but once the situation became uncontrollable, causing a humanitarian disaster, it might lead to the independence of North Kivu and South Kivu Provinces with the support of the international community.
Congo had already split into 'Democratic Republic of the Congo' and 'Congo Braze.' If those two major mining provinces split further, then Congo would have no bargaining chips left.
