Aboubakar Amadou Sanda

Aboubakar Amadou Sanda (born June 7, 1964 in Zinder ; also Aboubacar Amadou Sanda ) is a Nigerien officer .

Life

Aboubakar Amadou Sanda attended the elementary school in Say and the middle school of the Prytanée Militaire of Kadiogo , a military school, in Ouagadougou . He got a license in history. In 1987 he joined the Nigerien armed forces . He completed several military training courses in France by 1990 : at the Saint-Cyr military school , at the infantry school in Montpellier and with the airborne troops in Pau .

Sanda served in the Nigerien Intervention Battalion in the Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 and was then promoted to lieutenant . He became a sports officer in 1992. In 1995 he took over interim command of the 122nd Company in Niamey and achieved the rank of captain . When Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara came to power in a military coup in 1996 , Sanda was assigned to the Council of National Welfare , the new military junta , for which he worked as Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara's aide-de-camp . The latter was elected president in the rigged presidential elections of 1996 and remained in power after the dissolution of the military junta. Aboubakar Amadou Sanda became the regular commander of the 122nd Company in 1997.

President Baré Maïnassara was killed in a military coup in April 1999. Sanda became one of 14 officers on the Council of National Reconciliation , the military junta that ruled until December 1999 and that accompanied the return to a democratic and civilian government. During this time he took over the management of the Nigers Food Office, which was responsible for managing the grain reserves in the drought-ridden country. Sanda continued his career in the armed forces after the dissolution of the Council of National Reconciliation and stayed in Pakistan for military training until the end of 2000 .

The attempt by President Mamadou Tandja , who was elected for the first time in 1999, to obtain a third term in office that is not provided for in the constitution, led to his overthrow on February 18, 2010. Once again, a military junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy under Salou Djibo , temporarily took control of the country. Again Aboubakar Amadou Sanda, who had meanwhile held the rank of lieutenant colonel , became a member of the junta. On October 16, 2010, Sanda was arrested. He was accused of trying to destabilize the Salou Djibo regime together with officers Abdoulaye Badié , Amadou Diallo and Issa Abdou Sidikou, who had already been arrested .

The Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy transferred power to democratically elected civil institutions in January 2011 and was dissolved. Sanda, like the three other arrested officers, was acquitted of all allegations and released in May 2011. In 2012 he became a Defense Attaché at the Nigerian Embassy in Canada . He was promoted to colonel in 2013 and joined the Nigerian embassy in Turkey as a defense attaché in 2014 .

Aboubakar Amadou Sanda is married and has five children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 391-392 .
2. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 346 .
3. ↑ A la Présidence du Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de la Démocratie: the Chef de l'Etat signe un décret fixant the composition du Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de la Démocratie. In: Niger Diaspora. October 12, 2010, accessed July 26, 2017 (French). 
4. ^ Pierre Boisselet: Un quatrième haut-gradé sous les verrous. In: Jeune Afrique . October 18, 2010, accessed July 26, 2017 (French). 
5. ↑ Liberation des 4 officiers accusés de complot contre la sureté de l'Etat: l'accusation dans ses petits souliers. In: Niger Diaspora. May 24, 2011, accessed July 26, 2017 (French). 
6. ^ New Arrivals - Fall 2012. In: Diplomat Magazine. October 4, 2012, accessed July 27, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Le Chef de l'Etat signe un décret portant promotion d'Officiers des Forces Armées Nigériennes. In: Le Sahel . Retrieved July 26, 2017 (French). 
8. ↑ Ankara Büyükelçiliği. (No longer available online.) In: Vize Merkezi. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 26, 2017 (Turkish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ Seidik Abba: Niger: la junte militaire et ses dix affaires secrètes (2010–2011) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-343-00366-5 , pp. 66 .