Jean-Baptiste Kibwe Pampala Uwitwa was a Congolese-Katangese politician who was the Minister of Justice and Vice-President of the State of Katanga.
13 Facts About Jean-Baptiste Kibwe
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe was a Bwile, population group which mostly lives around Lake Mweru, Pweto territory.
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe attended primary school and four years of Catholic secondary school.
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe's name is often cited as a major player in the murder of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.
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Later that day, Jean-Baptiste Kibwe attended the execution of Lumumba and his two colleagues, about sixty kilometres from Elisabethville.
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe obtained eight votes, and lost against Edouard Bulundwe, who obtained thirteen votes out of a total of twenty-one provincial deputies.
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe became the provincial Minister of Finance under Bulundwe.
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In February 1968, Jean-Baptiste Kibwe was arrested and condemned to penal servitude.
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In 1976, Jean-Baptiste Kibwe went to Luanda, Angola, and approached the anti-Mobutu Congolese National Liberation Front rebels, who would try to overthrow the president of the renamed Zaire twice during the Shaba I and Shaba II wars.
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The representative of Jean-Baptiste Kibwe, Deogratias Symba, was a notable personality within the FLNC, but rebel leader Nathanael Mbumba tried to arrest Jean-Baptiste Kibwe, who succeeded in escaping through the help of the Belgian ambassador.
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe was an MP for the non-armed opposition during the political transition period from 2003 to 2006.
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On 16 July 2001, Jean-Baptiste Kibwe testified in front of the Belgian Parliamentary Commission regarding the assassination of Lumumba.
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Jean-Baptiste Kibwe exercised a function at the Katebe Katoto foundation.