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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 KINSHASA 000087 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PINR KDEM CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: KABILA ALLIES WIN MAJORITY OF EASTERN KASAI'S 
SEATS IN NATIONAL SENATE 
 
¶1. (U) Results from the January 19 Senate elections in 
Eastern Kasai gave the pro-Kabila Alliance for the 
Presidential Majority (AMP) an overwhelming majority of seats 
in a region that includes areas that have been politically 
hostile towards Kabila. The People's Party for Reconstruction 
and Democracy (PPRD) won three of the province's 12 Senate 
seats, while Azarias Ruberwa's Rally for Congolese Democracy 
(RCD), currently aligned with the AMP in provincial 
elections, won two. Other AMP coalition parties each winning 
one Senate position included the Convention of Unified 
Congolese (CCU), the League of Christian Democrats (LDC), and 
the Party of National Alliance for Unity (PANU), bringing the 
AMP total to at least eight. 
 
¶2. (U) The AMP won the majority of seats thanks in large part 
to its current alliance with Ruberwa's RCD. AMP members came 
just shy of gaining the majority in the provincial 
legislature, winning just 27 of 61 seats in the October 
elections. The RCD won eight seats in Eastern Kasai, thereby 
giving the AMP-RCD coalition a ruling majority in the 
assembly. 
 
¶3. (U) Notable winning candidates from the AMP include the 
alliance's national coordinator Andre Philippe Futa (PANU), 
President Kabila's chief of staff Leonard She Okitundu 
(PPRD), and Transitional Government Senator Raymond Omba Pene 
Djunga (LDC). Both Okitundu and Futa are widely mentioned as 
possible Senate Presidents. 
 
¶4. (U) Only two candidates allied with Jean-Pierre Bemba's 
Union for the Nation (UN) coalition won seats: former 
presidential candidate Roger Lumbala of RCD-N and former MLC 
Transitional National Assembly deputy David Mutamba of the 
Democratic Convention for Development (CDD). 
 
¶5. (U) Two independents were elected from Eastern Kasai. At 
least one, Jacques Tshimbombo Mukuna, who represented the RCD 
in the Transitional National Assembly, is a nominal ally of 
the AMP. The other elected independent, Willy Kakienge 
Nundwe, is a political newcomer. 
 
¶6. (U) The one high-profile losing candidate in the Eastern 
Kasai Senate elections was U.S.-based physician and former 
presidential candidate Oscar Kashala. Running as a candidate 
from his Union for the Reconstruction of Congo (UREC) party, 
Kashala did not receive any votes in the balloting, although 
UREC has one member in Eastern Kasai's provincial assembly. 
 
¶7. (SBU) Biographical information: 
 
David Mutamba Dibwe (CDD) 
 
Mutamba, 64, represented civil society in the Transitional 
Senate and later the MLC in the Transitional National 
Assembly. He was defeated in his run for the new National 
Assembly from Eastern Kasai. He participated in the Lutundula 
Commission's mission to Katanga. A former chief of staff to 
Leon Kengo wa Dondo, he also served as the president of 
mining parastatal SODIMICO and the CEO of the electricity 
parastatal SNEL. A native of Kamina, Katanga , he became a 
naturalized Belgian citizen in 1998. Born June 19, 1942. 
 
Willy Kakienge Nundwe (independent, affiliation unknown) 
 
Kakienge, 46, was elected as an independent candidate from 
the southern region of Lomami in Eastern Kasai. Born January 
5, 1961. 
 
Sebastien Matanda Mwidika (PPRD) 
 
Matanda, 61, represented the political opposition in the 
Transitional National Assembly. He was also elected from the 
Lomami district of Eastern Kasai. Born December 28, 1945. 
 
Pascal Kabeya Sabua (RCD) 
 
Kabeya, 56, is secretary general of the SYTHAC labor union 
and a member of the executive committee of Union Network 
International (UNI)-Africa. Born September 11, 1950. 
 
Leonard Anganda Mbutshu Luhata (CCU) 
 
Anganda, 64, has served as professor of social sciences at 
the University of Kinshasa. Born December 28, 1942. 
 
 
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Raymond Omba Pene Djunga (LDC) 
 
Omba, 68, was Mobutu's first cabinet secretary after the 1965 
coup d'etat. Born in the same village as Patrice Lumumba, he 
was trained at Belgium's royal military academy. In September 
1975 he was accused of plotting a coup against Mobutu and 
condemned to death. After serving four years in prison, he 
became a businessman and administered several development 
projects. Omba participated in the Sovereign National 
Conference and later served as Minister of Public Works from 
1994-1996. He founded the League of Christian Democrats and 
represented Eastern Kasai in the Transitional Senate, where 
he chaired the defense and security committee. Born April 8, 
¶1938. 
 
Leonard She Okitundu (PPRD) 
 
She Okitundu, 60, is Kabila's current chief of staff. A 
member of the same Tetela tribe as Patrice Lumumba, he holds 
a law degree from the University of Lausanne. He spent most 
of his adult years in exile in Switzerland following Mobutu's 
coup, working as a human rights activist and lawyer. He 
returned to the Congo in 1996 after being recruited by 
Laurent Kabila to serve on his diplomatic staff. Named 
Minister of Human Rights, he later became Foreign Minister in 
2000, retaining the position under Joseph Kabila until 2003. 
He led the government delegation during the Inter-Congolese 
Dialogue and is a signatory of the 2003 Sun City Accords. 
Born March 20, 1946. 
 
Adalbert Otshumampita Aloki (RCD) 
 
Otshumampita, 62, has been a professor at the National 
Medical School (ISTM) and head of the law faculty at the 
International University of Congo. He previously served as an 
adviser to the Ministry of Higher Education and director 
general of ISTM before being dismissed for embezzlement. Born 
February 11, 1944. 
 
Andre Philippe Futa (PANU) 
 
Futa, 58, is the national coordinator of the AMP and is 
president of the Party of National Alliance for Unity (PANU). 
He is a member of the traditional Kasaian royal families of 
Bena Mbayi and Bakwa Dishi, holding the title of traditional 
chief of the Bakwa Dishi clan. He holds several advanced 
degrees, including a Masters in agro-economics from the 
University of Florida, and a doctorate in economics from 
Oklahoma State University. He served in many different 
positions with the African Development Bank, including 
interim director from 1995-1996 and Eastern Africa director 
from 1999-2001. Under Laurent and later Joseph Kabila, he 
served as Minister of Agricultural Development (2001-2002), 
Minister of Economy (2002-2003), and Minister of Finance 
(2003-2005). He was elected chairman of the board of 
governors of the World Bank and IMF for the Congo in 2004. 
Born August 26, 1948. 
 
Benoit Ngeleka Kanguvu (PPRD) 
 
Ngeleka, 65, was a member of the Transitional National 
Assembly. Born August 8, 1941. 
 
Roger Lumbala (RCD-N) 
 
Lumbala, 48, is the national president of the Rally for 
Congolese Democracy-National (RCD-N) and a spokesman for 
Bemba's Union for the Nation alliance. A co-founder of 
Ruberwa's RCD, he split from the party in 2000 to form RCD-N, 
which allied with Bemba's MLC and received military support 
from Uganda. He is a former member of Etienne Tshisekedi's 
Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS). He later 
joined Laurent Kabila's AFDL march across the country to 
topple Mobutu, before turning against him in 1997. He holds a 
degree in education and served as the Minister of External 
Trade in the Transitional Government before being ousted on 
corruption charges. He unsuccessfully ran for president in 
¶2006. Though he won a seat in the National Assembly, the 
Supreme Court annulled his victory for attempts at voter 
fraud. Born April 13, 1958. 
 
Jacques Tshimbombo Mukuna (independent, presumably allied 
with Kabila/AMP) 
 
Tshimbombo, 60, represented the RCD-G in the Transitional 
 
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National Assembly, but ran as an independent candidate for 
Senate. He held several positions under Mobutu, including 
Minister of Sports and Youth and the last director of the 
National Service for Intelligence and Protection (SNIP). He 
also held the position of governor of Kinshasa from 
1985-1986. He returned to the Congo from six years of exile 
in 2003, founding the Union for Republican Renewal, which is 
allied with the RCD-G. Born June 12, 1946. 
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