Amadou Diallo (officer)

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Amadou Diallo (born March 11, 1963 in Niamey ) is a Nigerien officer and politician .

Life

Amadou Diallo attended primary school in Niamey, the city of his birth, and then middle school, which he graduated in 1981. In the same year he became a member of the Nigerien armed forces . From 1982 to 1985 he attended the Royal Military Academy in Meknes in Morocco and from 1985 to 1986 he trained with the Brigade de sapeurs-pompiers de Paris in France . Diallo worked for the fire brigade in Niger from 1986 and in the same year became deputy commander of the Niamey fire brigade company, and finally in 1989 its commander. From 1995 he was director of civil protection in the Ministry of the Interior.

The Nigerien President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was killed in a military coup on April 9, 1999 . Amadou Diallo became a member of the 14-member military junta formed on April 11, 1999 , the Council of National Reconciliation , chaired by Daouda Malam Wanké , who ruled Niger until December 1999. Diallo worked from April 21, 1999 to September 15, 2001 as Prefect President of the Niamey Municipal Association , which corresponded to an (appointed) mayor. After that he was initially a technical advisor in the Ministry of the Interior. In 2002 he became director general for civil defense and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel . Diallo was elected President of the national football association Fédération Nigérienne de Football in 2006 for a term of four years . He resigned in 2009 after the association had the football player Boubacar Talatou take part in the U-17 African Cup of Nations 2009 with an incorrect age .

On February 18, 2010, President Mamadou Tandja was ousted in a military coup and a new military junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy under the leadership of Salou Djibo , took power in the state. Amadou Diallo, who now had the rank of Colonel , became a member of the junta again. He worked as a government commissioner at the military tribunal . In the interim government formed on March 1, 2010 under Prime Minister Mahamadou Danda, he also held the post of Minister of Infrastructure . During his tenure as minister, the People's Republic of China handed over the Pont de l'amitié Chine-Niger , the second bridge over the Niger River in the capital Niamey , to Niger.

Diallo was removed from his post as government commissioner at the military tribunal on October 8, 2010, dismissed as a minister on October 15, 2010 and arrested on October 16. With Abdoulaye Badié , Aboubakar Amadou Sanda and Issa Abdou Sidikou, three other senior officers were arrested. The group was accused of trying to destabilize the regime. After the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy handed over power to a civilian government under President Mahamadou Issoufou in January 2011 , all allegations were dropped in May 2011 and the four officers were released. Diallo then went abroad as a defense attaché at the Nigerian embassy in Italy .

Amadou Diallo is married and has four children.

Honors

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Commandant Amadou Diallo. Ville de Niamey, August 15, 2016, accessed September 29, 2017 (French).
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  4. ↑ Une disqualification chèrement payée. In: RDS. April 4, 2009, accessed July 29, 2017 (French).
  5. ↑ 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 29, 2017 (French).
  6. ↑ a b Niger: deux hauts gradés arrêtés pour complot. In: Le Monde . October 16, 2010, accessed July 29, 2017 (French).
  7. ^ Le Conseil suprême pour la restauration de la democratie (CSRD) mis en place au Niger après le renversement du président Mamadou Tandja: composition du CSRD et du Gouvernement mis en place. In: Sangonet. Retrieved July 29, 2017 (French).
  8. ↑ Photos Niger: mise en service d'un pont construit par la Chine. In: Chine Informations. March 20, 2011, accessed July 29, 2017 (French).
  9. ^ Pierre Boisselet: Un quatrième haut-gradé sous les verrous. In: Jeune Afrique . October 18, 2010, accessed July 29, 2017 (French).
  10. ↑ 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 29, 2017 (French).
  11. ↑ Niger: Comment Issoufou désarme les gradés. In: Tamtam Info. April 23, 2012, accessed July 29, 2017 (French).
  12. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Diallo, Amadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Niamey