The Tribunal de grande in Kinshasa-Gombe began hearings on Monday in the investigation into the death of Delphin Kahimbi, the former head of military intelligence who died in February 2020. At the helm of the tribunal, which was located in an entertainment venue in Makala prison. , the widow of the deceased, the main accused. Goal: to try to dispel the truth from the falsehood between the suicide attempt and the murder.
as reported from Kinshasa, Pascal Mulegwa
Wearing a red cloth of the same color as her Boubou, Brenda Nkoy Okale, wife of the former head of the Congolese military intelligence service, on Monday, May 10, supported that General Delphin Kahimbi was still alive when she discovered her body on Friday morning in a walk-in closet in their bedroom. He was “normal and did not show any traces of violence in the neck”, although the autopsy report slipped into the extensive file confirming that the officer had been subjected to an “incomplete and atypical” hanging.
The forensic pathologist even acknowledged in his report that there were still many gray areas to clarify this death. In a telephone conversation with the wife of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Jean-Claude Yav, the defendant was the first to confirm that her husband, according to the prosecutor, hung himself that General Kahimbi’s wife immediately denied.
Simple heart attack
The Chief of Staff and his wife have been called as witnesses at the next hearing, scheduled for May 20. They should be brought before the main defendant. In one of the minutes, she believes that her husband died of a simple heart attack, because the day before he had been disarmed, placed under house arrest and his stripes had been withdrawn by a team that came to disarm him. On the day his body was discovered, Delphin Kahimbi had to face the National Security Council, which suspected him of spying and endangering state security.
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