 As early as late 1997, Kabila was being denounced as "another Mobutu".Kabila was also accused trying to set up a personality cult.Mobutu's former minister of information, Dominique Sakombi Inongo, was retained by Kabila; he branded Kabila as "the Mzee," and created posters reading "Here is the man we needed" () appeared all over the country.