Name Victor Bika | Role Politician | |
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Born 7 August 1923Kumu, Buta District Oriental Province ( 1923-08-07 ) Political party Mouvement National Congolais-Lumumba, Popular Movement of the Revolution | ||
Victor Nendaka Bika (7 August 1923 – 22 August 2002) was a Congolese politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo (previously known as Zaire). Nicknamed "Oufkir" reminding Mohamed Oufkir, the right-hand man of King Hassan II in the 1960s and early 1970s, Victor Nendaka was the first Director of Sûreté Nationale du Congo (Congo's Security Services) after independence in June 1960. Nendaka once belonged to the Congolese National Movement (MNC) of Patrice Lumumba. For personal reasons, Victor quit the MNC and created MNC-Nendaka in March 1960. In his capacity as Head of Security Services, Nendaka is believed to have played a paramount role in the arrest, torture and transfer of Patrice Lumumba to Lubumbashi (then Elisabethville) where the first Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was brutally executed; allegations that Victor Nendaka vehemently denied on several occasions, one of which being at the hearings of the Lumumba's commission at the initiative of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. Victor Nendaka died on Thursday, 22 August 2002, at age 79, while in exile in Brussels, after Mobutu's regime was overthrown by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL or ADFLC) led by rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila and backed by President Paul Kagame's Rwanda in 1997.
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Early life and family
Victor Nendaka was born on 7 August 1923 in Kumu, Buta Territory, Bas-Uele District in the North-Eastern Congo, also referred to as the Orientale Province. He was the only child to his mother Elizabeth. However, he had stepsisters and stepbrothers, among whom Goningame Josephine and Pae Pierre. Victor went to The Frères Maristes School in Buta. He married Astrid Mbooto in 1943. Victor and Astrid had six children: Gabrielle, Andre, Monique, Claude, Victorine and Astrid. He died in shame and exile on 22 August 2002 in Brussels.