Yvon Kimpiobi

Yvon Kimpiobi or Kimpiob-Ninafiding Nki-Ekundi (born 1 June 1923) is a Congolese politician who served twice as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Yvon Kimpiobi
President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In office
6 March 1962 – November 1962
Preceded byJoseph Kasongo
Succeeded byBertin Mwamba
In office
September 1965 – June 1967
Preceded byJoseph Midiburo
Succeeded byposition disestablished
Personal details
Born1 June 1923
Kikongo-Mitshakila, Kwango, Belgian Congo
Political partyParti Solidaire Africain
Convention Nationale Congolaise
Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution (1968–?)

Early life

Yvon Kimpiobi was born on 1 June 1923 in Kikongo-Mitshakila (near Bulungu, Bandundu[1]), Kwango, Belgian Congo to Dias Suing Mabong Ngul Mun and Nkubiya Nazur of the Mbel clan of the Yansi tribe. He undertook six years of primary studies and six years of commercial and administrative studies in Leverville before entering the workforce. In 1943 he became an accounting clerk at Huileries et Plantations du Kwango in Fumu-Mputu, Masi-Manimba Territory. Six years later he was hired by Almeida Frères in Kikwit. Kimpiobi served there until 1952 when he became a clerk in the colonial administration attached to the secretariat of Kwango Province (reformed as Kwilu in 1954). He also married and had a total of 20 children.[2]

Political career

In the 1957 municipal elections Kimpiobi won the office of Chef de Centre extra-coutumier de Kikwit. Two years later he formed part of a Kwilu delegation of customary chiefs that met with the Belgian minister of colonies to discuss the Léopoldville riots.[2]

In the Congo's first national elections in 1960 Kimpiobi was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a representative from Kwilu Province and a member of the Parti Solidaire Africain (PSA) with 6,281 preferential votes.[3][4] When the PSA split he aligned himself with Cléophas Kamitatu's moderate wing of the party.[5] On 6 March 1962 he was elected President of the Chamber,[6] defeating the parliamentary opposition candidate, 59 votes to 51.[7] He held the office until November 1962.[2] In September of that year he led a small parliamentary delegation on a good-will trip to the Republic of China.[8] In 1965 he was reelected to the Chamber as a member of the new Convention Nationale Congolaise.[4] He again served as President of the Chamber from that September until June 1967.[2] That year the Chamber was dissolved, ending Kimpiobi's tenure as a national deputy. In June 1968 he was made a member of the political bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution (MPR).[9] In December 1970 the bureau was reorganised and he was dismissed from his position.[10]

In 1997 Laurent-Désiré Kabila seized control of the Congo. Afterwards he created a commission to draft a new constitution for the country. Kimpiobi was appointed to the commission.[11]

Citations
  1. Mulumba & Makombo 1986, p. 202.
  2. Assemblée nationale 2015.
  3. Artigue 1961, p. 153.
  4. Maspero 1971, p. 283.
  5. Mpisi 2007, p. 124.
  6. Mpisi 2007, p. 352.
  7. Halberstam, David (15 March 1962). "About to Meet Tshombe Today". The New York Times. p. 12. ProQuest 115989790.
  8. China Yearbook 1962, p. 272.
  9. Ministère des Affaires étrangères 2010, p. 382.
  10. Le Progres 1970, p. 7.
  11. Willame 1999, p. 71.

References
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