Jacques Lumbala

{{Short description|Congolese politician}}

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File:First Congolese government.jpg (left center) with his first government including Jacques Lumbala outside the Palais de la Nation soon after swearing-in ceremony]].

Jacques Lumbala was a Congolese politician.{{Cite book |last=Merriam |first=p alan |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.110664 |title=Congo Background Of Conflict |date=1961}}{{Cite web |title=Politics in the Congo : decolonization and independence {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/307971 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}} He was appointed as the first Secretary of State to the Presidency of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under Lumumba Government that ran from 24 June until 12 September 1960 under the leadership of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. He was a member of PNP.

While a secretary for the PNP in Kivu Province, MNC politician reportedly had Joseph-Désiré Mobutu bribe Lumbala to secure his political allegiance.{{sfn|Kent|2010|loc=2: The elimination of Lumumba and the establishment of the Adoula government, September 1960–August 1961}} According to Thomas Kanza, Lumbala and Mobutu held much influence in the final determination of Lumumba's government.{{sfn|Kanza|1994|p=113}} Lumbala thereafter bribed 13 members of Parliament to support Lumumba's preferred candidate for president.{{sfn|Kent|2010|loc=2: The elimination of Lumumba and the establishment of the Adoula government, September 1960–August 1961}}