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Mahamane Ouadaï Boulama Manga (born April 12, 1940 in N'Guigmi ) is a Nigerien officer and politician .

Life

Boulama Manga went to primary school in N'Guigmi and attended the Collège classique et moderne in Niamey from 1953 to 1958 . He then worked as an assistant teacher at the primary school in Bouné . Manga became a member of the gendarmerie, which belonged to the Nigerien armed forces , in 1961 and attended gendarmerie schools in Fréjus and Melun in France . He returned to Niger in 1964 and became a sub-lieutenant and group commander of the gendarmerie in Maradi . In 1966 he was promoted to nationwide commandant of the gendarmerie. He had the rank of lieutenant from 1966 and from 1970 the rank of captain .

Manga belonged to the group of officers who by on April 15, 1974 military coup the President Hamani Diori deposed and the Supreme Military Council , the military junta formed Niger. During the coup, he took on the task of coordinating the entire operation with Seyni Kountché and François-Robert Wright . Boulama Manga held four different ministerial posts in succession until 1979: he was Minister for Economic Affairs, Trade and Industry from April 22, 1974, Minister of Health and Social Affairs from June 3, 1975, Minister for Rural Development from February 21, 1976 and finally from 5 September 1978 to September 10, 1979 Minister for Youth, Sport and Culture. On June 16, 1980 he was appointed Prefect of the Tahoua Department. Manga refused to take up the post because, as prefect, he was subordinate to Interior Minister Mamadou Tandja , who had a low military rank. He was then imprisoned for some time, retired in 1983 and finally officially retired in 1988 because he had refrained from any activity for the Nigerien armed forces since June 16, 1980.

As Colonel i. R. Boulama Manga was rehabilitated in 1999 under the head of state Daouda Malam Wanké . President Mahamadou Issoufou appointed him Grand Chancellor of the Nigerien National Order in 2011 .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 332-333 .
  2. ^ Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye: 15 avril 1974. Mémoires d'un compagnon de Seyni Kountché . Editions Nathan Adamou, Niamey 2005, p. 73 .
  3. ↑ Malam Issa: Le régime militaire de Seyni Kountché (1974–1987) . In: Idrissa Kimba (ed.): Armée et politique au Niger . Codesria, Dakar 2008, ISBN 2-86978-216-0 , p. 144 .
  4. ↑ Au conseil des ministres: le gouvernement adopte le Projet de loi modifiant l'ordonnance n ° 2010-84 of 16 December 2010 portant Charte des partis politiques. (No longer available online.) In: Nigerdiaspora. November 21, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 6, 2013 (French).  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nigerdiaspora.info  
personal data
SURNAME Manga, Boulama
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manga, Mahamane Ouadaï Boulama (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH N'Guigmi