At Least He Wasn't Corrupt
At Least He Wasn't Corrupt In the summer of 2006, the Democratic Republic of the Congo held its first true election in more than a generation. Many different parties fielded candidates , including one called the Union of Congolese Nationalist Federalists ("UNAFEC"). And while UNAFEC didn't earn enough votes to take the Prime Minister's seat, they did well enough to get at least one spot in the cabinet. On February 5, 2007, Andre Kasongo Ilunga (not pictured), a UNAFEC member, was named the Minister for Foreign Trade for the nation. But his time in office was short-lived. He never showed up for work -- and, shortly after being sworn in, sent in a letter of resignation instead. There was a good reason for this, though: Ilunga probably never existed in the first place. Very little about Ilunga is known, which makes sense given the previous sentence. Officially, he was born on October 20, 1972 and at one point or another, was a vice-president of UN