Congo: Education minister impregnates deputy, claims workplace accident

Tony Mwaba Kazadi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education, made the startling admission that he had become pregnant unexpectedly with Aminata Namasia.

But he claimed it was a workplace accident.

They were both married, but after Namasia was named the National Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education in Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde’s cabinet on April 12, 2021, it is asserted that she fell in love with Kazadi.

A local newspaper, The Street Journal, cited Namasia as having denied the claim on her Twitter page, saying that she has a private life in addition to her official and public responsibilities and that this right is one that all Congolese are entitled to under their constitution.

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Because it could endanger not only her relationships but also the reputations of her married male coworkers and their homes, she argued that damaging her reputation shouldn’t be a practice that was tolerated.

“Political opponents can attack my opinions and political actions on the eve of the elections scheduled for December this year instead of choosing to engage in tactics that tend to smear my person,” she said.

According to “a reliable Congolese” by the name of Nugandu, who was quoted in The Street Journal, the story was false and that it was all political theater in the DRC.