Joseph Okito (5 February 1910 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and close political ally to Patrice Lumumba who briefly served as First Vice-President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo). He was executed alongside Lumumba in Katanga in 1961.
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5 February 1910 Koyapongo, Lusambo Territory, Belgian Congo
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Died |
17 January 1961 (aged 50) Near Élisabethville, State of Katanga
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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