Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi conducts to his last home

Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi who died on 19 February 2019 at the Cinquantenaire Hospital in Kinshasa, was awarded the Grand Cordon Medal in the National Order of National Heroes Kabila-Lumumba by the Chancellor of National Orders, under a order of the President of the Republic, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, signed on February 26, 2019. At the end of an academic session, the '' Dean Yan '' was posthumously awarded the rank of Doctor Honoris Causa , William Booth University of the Salvation Army.

In his funeral speech, Senate Speaker Leon Kengo Wa Dondo praised Senator Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi waited until the end of the last legislature to drop "his Philosopher tools", taciturn, he pondered, Kengo Wa Dondo said, more than he spoke. He had the attitude of a wise man. The Speaker of the Upper House of Parliament further noted that the one whom the senators affectionately called Dean had become accustomed to the evil that was compromising him. He fought the good fight, Leon Kengo Wa Dondo said, after completing his task.

Born in Mbanza-Ngungu, in Kongo Central (southwest of the city of Kinshasa), on January 5, 1933, Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sorbonne, France, the famous disappeared fought the day after the independence at the time of Patrice Emery Lumumba, Lubumbashi (Elisabethville) and Kisangani (Stanleyville). Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi was one of the closest supporters of the late Laurent Désiré Kabila. "The man with the waistcoat" joined the AFDL and became chief of staff of Mzee Laurent Désiré Kabila, after the victory of the alliance over Mobutu Sese Seko, in May 1997.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, during the Transition Government 1 + 4, I have been Vice President of the Republic and from the agreements of San City, chosen by his PPRD party. He was married to Gloria Gonzales, daughter of a Spanish Republican vanished in 1936.

Earlier, the various heads of institutions put down the wreaths in the name of their institutions starting with the Senate Office, the provisional National Assembly Office, Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala Nzenzhe and the President of the Constitutional Court, Lwamba Pindu Benoit.

The former President of the Republic, Joseph Kabila Kabange, accompanied by his wife Olive Lembe Kabila had arrived before the official ceremony at the People's Palace, where he laid a wreath at the coffin of the man who called him '' our son.''

(CKS/Yes)