Louis Alphonse Daniel Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengbo (23 March 1947 – 14 December 2014) was a Congolese politician. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo with responsibility for the Ministry of Postal Services, Telephones, and Telecommunications in the second
cabinet
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of Prime Minister
. Following the resignation of Prime Minister Muzito, Koyagialo was Acting
Prime Minister from 6 March to 18 April 2012, prior to the appointment of
Augustin Matata Ponyo.
Governor of Shaba
Koyagialo originated from the same part of
Equateur Province as President
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...
.
[ Under Mobutu, Koyagialo was Governor of Shaba Province (since renamed as ]Katanga Province
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika Province, Tanganyika, Hau ...
) from 1986 to 1990.
In April 2006 he published a book describing the massacre of students at the University of Lubumbashi in 1990. The book claims that only one student is known to have died. This is the official government position. Other sources give varying estimates of the number of students who died, with Amnesty International
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suggesting that the figure is between 50 and 150.
Political career under Kabila
Koyagialo was appointed acting secretary general of President Joseph Kabila's political cartel.
In a minor shuffle announced on 11 September 2011, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for PTT.[
On 14 October 2011 he visited the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to sign the Code of Conduct for the up-coming elections on behalf of Joseph Kabila, who did not attend in person.]
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1947 births
2014 deaths
People from Nord-Ubangi
Government ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Unified Lumumbist Party politicians
Governors of Katanga Province
Governors of provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Governors of Équateur (former province)
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
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