Casimir Oyé-Mba

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Casimir Oyé-Mba (born April 20, 1942 in Nzamaligué , Komo-Mondah department in the province of Estuaire , † September 16, 2021 in Paris ) was a Gabonese politician who has served in the government since 1990. He was the Prime Minister of Gabon from May 3, 1990 to November 2, 1994.

Life

Education and banking career

Between 1948 and 1954 he attended the Montfort elementary school in Libreville and in 1961 graduated from the collège Bessieux in Libreville with the Abitur (baccalauréat). He studied at the University of Rennes Law and graduated in 1965 from. Between 1965 and 1967 he studied in Paris and was born there on February 17, 1969 as Dr. jur. PhD.

In January 1968 he joined the Central Bank of the States of Equatorial Africa and Cameroon (Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Equatoriale et du Cameroun, BCEAEC). In January 1970 he became assistant manager of the Libreville bank and in April 1970 he became director of the Libreville branch. When in 1973 the BCEAEC was absorbed into the Central African Central Bank (Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, BEAC), Oyé-Mba became national director for Gabon. In January 1977 he became deputy general manager of BEAC at the bank's head office in Yaoundé, Cameroon. In April 1978 he became governor of the BEAC. He held this office until 1990.

In 2005, Oyé-Mba failed to apply for the position of President of the African Development Bank .

politics

Between 1973 and 1997 he was a member of the Central Committee of the State Party Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG). In 1990 serious unrest rocked the Republic of Gabon. President Omar Bongo was forced to lift one-party rule and call a national conference. On January 27, 1990, Oyé-Mba was appointed Prime Minister by the National Conference. In the following parliamentary elections, he won a seat in the National Assembly for the constituency of Komo-Mondah Department and was confirmed as Prime Minister following the election in November.

In the December 1993 presidential election, Oyé-Mba was the campaign leader for the victorious candidate, Bongo, and when a new government was appointed in March 1994, he remained Prime Minister.

The elections were not recognized by the opposition and protests broke out. Due to an agreement (the so-called "Paris Accords") with the opposition in November 1994, the Oyé-Mba government resigned on October 11, 1994 and was replaced on November 2 by a new coalition government under Paulin Obame Nguema . In this government, Oyé-Mba became Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He held this office until January 1999.

On January 25, 1999, he became Minister for Planning, Development Programs and Regional Planning in the government of Prime Minister Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane . Since December 28, 2007, Oyé-Mba has been Minister for Mining, Petroleum, Oil and Energy. He was re-elected to parliament in the December 1996 National Assembly elections and December 2001 parliamentary elections. In the local elections in December 2002 he was elected as a member of the city council in Ntoum .

Private

He died of COVID-19 in Paris on the night of September 15-16, 2021 . He was married and had six children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Covid-19: Casimir Oyé Mba est mort à Paris à 79 ans. In: directinfosgabon.com. September 16, 2021, accessed September 16, 2021 (French).