Julien Paluku Kahongya
| Julien Paluku Kahongya | |
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| Governor of North Kivu | |
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Assumed office 27 January 2007 |
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| President | Joseph Kabila |
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| Born | 13 December 1968 |
| Political party | Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (formerly) |
| Alma mater | College of Rural Development Free University of the Great Lake Region |
| Website | http://www.julienpaluku.com/ |
Julien Paluku Kahongya (born 13 December 1968) is a politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the governor of North Kivu province.
Julien Paluku Kahongya's father, Paluku Kyavuyirwe, comes from the territory of Lubero. Kahongya attended primary school at Nyamitwitwi (Rutshuru) and high school at Nyamilima (Rutshuru). He graduated from the College of Rural Development in Bukavu in 1993 and obtained a master's degree in Community Health at the Free University of the Great Lake Region, Campus of Butembo in 2005.
He taught at Nyamilima from 1988 to 1989 and in Goma from 1994 to 1998. He is a former member of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social.
In 1996, when AFDL entered Goma on Friday 1 November, Julien Paluku was a teacher at Mikeno College. At “Liberation”, he attended a training seminar on the management of country. He then participated in the second year of military training at the training centre of Rumangabo.
After this training, he became leader of the provincial office of AFDL, in charge of ideology, and at the same time the coordinating secretary of the political and military managerial staff of the same organization.
In August 1998, he joined the movement of the Congolese gathering for democracy (RCD). In October 1998, he was posted to Lubero as the territorial administrator assistant in charge of administration.
In May 1999, when RCD broke into parts and Lubero became a territory of RCD-ML, he was appointed at the electoral commission secretariat to organize the elections of the mayor of the new town of Butembo.
In October 1999, he was appointed the Lubero territory administrator, succeeding Mr. Sikuly’Uvasaka Makala, elected mayor of Butembo. He served as the Lubero administrator until 3 March 2003. Julien Paluku’s mandate centred on the following points:
- Awareness of the may may Vita Kitambala, La Fontaine, Jackson Muhuka Mbuto to integrate the forces of CGD/K-ML, called CPA (Congolese People’s Army), - Mission of the restoration of the State’s authority on all the territory of Lubero, an area of 18,096 square km, - Negotiation right in the middle of the Virunga park with the leaders of CGD/Goma and CGD/K-ML, - Negotiation at Nambole in Kampala (Mandela National Stadium) in the conflicts that were tearing up Ituri (in 2000).
Julien Paluku was appointed mayor of the town of Butembo, succeeding Eric Kamavu (DRC Ambassador in Angola from 2006–2009) who became a Minister in the government of RCD/K-ML, located in Beni. He made efforts in putting up an impressive town hall in Butembo in partnership with the Federation of Entreprises of Congo (FEC). In 2003, he initiated the building of the first public parking, the only one in the province of North Kivu. He made the main roads of the town of Butembo to be repaired to give it a form of a town with built round-abouts, restored sewages. He made the bridge Cugeki built. It was inaugurated on 2 July 2005, hence allowing the connection of two areas that were separated by River Kimemi for two decades. It is the only way opening the town to the Diocese of Butembo-Beni.
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