Mallam Oubandawaki

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Mallam Oubandawaki (* 1945 in Tibiri ; † 2004 ; also Malam Oubandawaki ) was a Nigerien officer and politician .

Life

Mallam Oubandawaki attended elementary school in his birthplace, Tibiri, followed by the Lycée National Middle School in Niamey , which he graduated in 1966. He then worked for the customs office and in the private sector for three years.

Oubandawaki joined the gendarmerie belonging to the Nigerien armed forces in 1969 . After two years of basic training, he was assigned to a brigade in Birni-N'Konni . From 1972 he completed a series of training courses: at the military training center Tondibiah in Niger, at the military school in Bouaké in the Ivory Coast and at the École des officiers de la Gendarmerie nationale in Melun in France . After his return in 1976 he was first group commander of the gendarmerie in Niamey.

Seyni Kountché , Niger's head of state since 1974 and chairman of the Supreme Military Council , brought Mallam Oubandawaki to his home in 1976 as his long-term aide-de-camp . Kountché, at this point already seriously ill, appointed Oubandawaki on September 7, 1987 as the successor to Hadj Nadjir as Niger's Minister of Justice . After the death of the head of state on November 20, 1987 Abdourahamane Soli became the new Minister of Justice. Under Kountché's successor Ali Saïbou , Oubandawaki rose on November 23, 1987 to the position of Supreme Commander and thus head of the entire gendarmerie. He held this position until March 7, 1993.

After the disempowerment of the military and a period of civilian government from 1993 onwards, Oubandawaki worked as an advisor to the Minister of State for National Reconciliation Albert Wright and the Minister of Defense Tahirou Amadou . In 1995 he briefly took command of the first gendarmerie legion of Niamey. In the same year Oubandawaki published his memoirs, in which he transfigured the rule of Seyni Kountché. Under President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who was in office from 1996 to 1999 , again a member of the armed forces, he worked as prefect of the Diffa department .

Mallam Oubandawaki died in 2004.

Fonts

  • J'étais l'aide de camp du President Kountché . Nouvelle Imprimerie du Niger, Niamey 1995.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mallam Oubandawaki: J'étais l'aide de camp du Président Kountché . Nouvelle Imprimerie du Niger, Niamey 1995, p. 4 .
  2. ↑ List of the gouvernements successifs de la République du Niger de 1957 à 2016. (PDF) Service de la documentation générale du secrétariat général de la Présidence de la République, accessed on August 9, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Les chefs de corps et Hauts Commandants de la Gendarmerie Nationale de 1960 à 2015. Ministère de la Défense du Niger, archived from the original on January 14, 2018 ; accessed on August 9, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Mahaman 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. 125 .
  5. ↑ Amadou Ousmane : Kountché par ses proches . Nouvelle Imprimerie du Niger, Niamey 1997, p. 106 .
  6. ↑ Thierry Limpens: Project Document Zuid-Noord werking. (PDF) Nieuw Thabor Solidariteit vzw, May 1, 2007, p. 26 , accessed on August 9, 2020 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Oubandawaki, Mallam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oubandawaki, Malam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tibiri
DATE OF DEATH 2004