François-Robert Wright

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François-Robert Wright (born February 3, 1945 in Niamey ) is a Nigerien officer .

Life

François-Robert Wright volunteered for the Nigerien Armed Forces after attending primary and middle school in 1964 . He attended military schools for air forces in Nîmes , Cognac , Aulnat and Salon-de-Provence in France and obtained his second class pilot's license at the French military airfield Avord in 1966 . Wright reached the rank of lieutenant in the Nigerien Armed Forces in 1968 . In 1972 he obtained his first class pilot's license in Toulouse and was promoted to deputy commander of Niger's national flight squadron at the end of the year. Wright was one of the officers who toppled Nigerien President Hamani Diori in a military coup on April 15, 1974 . His job during the coup was to coordinate the entire operation with Seyni Kountché and Boulama Manga . The officers involved joined together under the chairmanship of Kountché in the Supreme Military Council , the country's military junta that ruled the country from 1974 to 1989 . From 1975 Wright was the commander of the national flight squadron. With the rank of Brigadier General in the Air Force since 1995 , he retired in 1996.

Honors

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. 347-349 .
  2. ^ Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye: 15 avril 1974. Mémoires d'un compagnon de Seyni Kountché . Editions Nathan Adamou, Niamey 2005, p. 73 .