After a one year training course at the Ecole Supérieure des Télécommunications in Léopoldville, he found work at the telecommunications service in Stanleyville.

In January–February 1960 he attended the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference in Brussels as a member of the MNC-Lumumba delegation.

Though he won the latter seat with 20,854 preferential votes,[5] he was persuaded by MNC leader Patrice Lumumba to forgo it in favor of the provincial position.

[1] Following a defection of deputies from the MNC and their denunciation of Lumumba, a group of disgruntled soldiers in Stanleyville attempted to overthrow the pro-Lumumba provincial government.

[1] Over the next few days, more pro-Lumumba officials fled Léopoldville and took refuge in Stanleyville and the wider attempt to remove the provincial government failed.