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Bernard Takaishe Ngumbi

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ106904491 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bernard Takaishe Ngumbi is a Congolese politician. In 2019, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Justice of Democratic Republic of the Congo, under Ilunga government that ran from September 2019 to April 2021, as well as a member of parliament. He is the member of Union for Democracy and Social Progress.

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The public source identifies “Bernard Takaishe Ngumbi” as politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bernard, Takaishe and Ngumbi.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bernard, Takaishe and Ngumbi providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q106904491. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bernard Takaishe Ngumbi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.