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The ' laborious ' discussions which then followed were later retrospectively given the label of an ' extraordinary ministerial council '.

Gérald-Libois writes that '.. the special meeting of the council of ministers took steps for the immediate Africanisation of the officer corps and .. named Victor Lundula, who was born in Kasai and was burgomaster of Jadotville, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armée Nationale Congolaise ( ANC ); Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu as chief of staff ; and the Belgian, Colonel Henniquiau, as chief advisor to the ANC.

' Thus General Janssens was dismissed.

Both Lundula and Mobutu were former FP sergeants.

It appears that Maurice Mpolo, Minister of Youth and Sports, was given the defence portfolio.