Rémy Mwamba

He served in the Collége Exécutive Général transitional government before being elected a senator of the newly independent Republic of the Congo in 1960.

Negotiations led to the creation of a new government in August 1961 under Cyrille Adoula and he resumed his work as Minister of Justice.

[7] Mwamba attended the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference of January–February 1960 in Brussels as delegate of the BALUBAKAT cartel.

[8] Mwamba was appointed to a commission established to determine whether Belgium should retain any powers or official responsibilities in the Congo after 30 June.

[9] One of the resolutions adopted at the Round Table called for the establishment of a Collége Exécutive Général (General Executive College), a body composed of six Congolese (one from each province) designed to share power with the Governor-general until independence.

[13] "Rémy Mwamba, the Minister of Justice, had had a certain amount of legal experience, for he had been working for a long time in various tribunals in Katanga.

[16] He competed with Minister of Interior Christophe Gbenye to assert his authority over the Sûreté Nationale (security police) until Lumumba attached the chief of the organisation to his own office.

The ministers eventually compromised, accepting Mwamba's recommendation and making Mobutu the army chief of staff.

[19] Three days later Mwamba ordered the Procureur général to launch inquiries into the actions of soldiers against Europeans in the province of Kasai.

[20] On 28 July he was made a member of a cabinet committee established to coordinate government actions with those of United Nations officials.

[22] On 5 September President Joseph Kasa-Vubu dismissed Lumumba, Mwamba, and several other members of the government from office.

[23] The government was paralyzed by the political battle that ensued, and on 14 September, Colonel Mobutu announced a military takeover and the installation of his own administration.

At the Sankuru river Lumumba was separated from his wife and youngest child and, against Mwamba's and Mulele's advice, went back for them and was arrested.