KINSHASA — A police colonel in the Democratic Republic of Congo has blamed the killing of a top human rights campaigner on the country's police chief, who has been suspended, a source close to the presidency said Sunday.
The source said Colonel Daniel Mukalay, head of the police special service, had been arrested and confessed to a role in the murder of Floribert Chebeya but pointed the finger at national police chief John Numbi who was put under house arrest.
Earlier Interior Minister Adolphe Lumanu announced on national television that Numbi had been suspended and several police officers arrested in the probe into Chebeya's death.
Reading out a communique Lumanu said President Joseph Kabila was "determined that all light be shed" on the murder.
He said that "to allow the enquiry to be conducted smoothly, the national defence council decided as a precaution to suspend inspector general John Numbi," at an extraordinary meeting on Saturday night.
