[2] Kalume Numbi was among the company of Major General Lukama Marcellin, the 106th All Weapons TAW, the Royal Military Academy of Belgium.

He was suspended from duty on 11 November 2002, following the publication by the United Nations of the Kassem report on looting of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In this report his name was mentioned alongside those of Mwenze Kongolo (Minister of Security and Public Order), Augustin Katumba Mwanke (Minister in the Presidency), Mwana Nanga Mawampanga (Ambassador to Zimbabwe), Didier Kazadi Nyembwe (general manager at the National Intelligence Agency ) and Jean Charles Okoto Lolakombe (managing director General of the Societé Minière de Bakwanga "MIBA").

[6] In September 2008, with continued fighting between the Laurent Nkunda's CNDP militia and FARDC in South Kivu, Kalume called on the United Nations peacekeepers of MONUC to enforce peace by implementing Chapter 7 of the UN Charter without delay.

[7] In October 2008 he was seeking help from the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community in resolving the ongoing fighting in the eastern DRC.