Michel Alladaye
Michel Alladaye (* 1940 in Abomey , French Dahomey ) is a former politician of the Republic of Dahomey and the People's Republic of Benin , who was Benin's Foreign Minister between 1972 and 1980 .
Life
Michel Alladaye, who belongs to the Fon people , attended the Lycée Victor Ballot and between 1960 and 1962 completed an officer training at the Saint-Cyr military school . On his return he joined in 1962 as a Lieutenant (Lieutenant) in the Armed Forces (Forces armées) and was 1963 to 1967 commander of in Kandi stationed first engineering company. After his promotion to captain (Capitaine) in 1967, he completed additional training at the Technical Engineering School (Ecole Superieure Technique du Genie) in Versailles . On his return in 1969 he became a logistics officer in the staff of the armed forces. Together with Michel Aïkpé and Janvier Assogba , he planned the coup led by Mathieu Kérékou , which on October 26, 1972 led to the overthrow of the three-member Presidential Council of Coutoucou Hubert Maga , Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin and Sourou-Migan Apithy .
Alladaye was originally intended as president . After Mathieu Kérékou took over this office instead, he became foreign minister himself and at the same time commander of the military engineer corps of the armed forces. The pragmatic technocrat and politically centered Alladaye clashed several times in the following years with the ideological-militant agitator Captain Martin Dohou Azonhiho , who as Minister of Propaganda wanted the armed forces to be politicized. In at least two situations the conflict between the two ministers ended in fistfights. Although Azonhiho was considered indispensable in Kérékou's early tenure, President Kérékou kept Alladaye in the cabinet as a counterweight to the radical faction and because he was the most senior officer of the Fon people in this cabinet dominated by officers from the north. Nevertheless, as a close friend of Michel Aïkpé, he did not accept his assassination by the Presidential Guard on June 20, 1975 when Aïkpé, as Minister of the Interior and Security, became a competitor of Mathieu Kérékou.
After the founding of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin PRPB (Parti de la Révolution Populaire du Benin) in 1975 Alladaye became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PRPB. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the People's Republic of Benin between 1976 and 1980 and was then replaced by Simon Ifede Ogouma . As Foreign Minister, he visited the German Democratic Republic in April 1975 and January 1977 . In the course of a government reshuffle , he was appointed major minister for justice and legislation and minister for social affairs in the Kérékou cabinet in 1980. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor for his services . In another reshuffle, he was appointed in 1981 Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant-Colonel) promoted and took over the post of Minister of Interior and Security (Ministre de l'Interieur et de la Sécurité) . He took on the second highest function after President Kérékou and was henceforth responsible for the police and security forces of the People's Republic of Benin. In August 1984 he was ousted in the course of a new cabinet reshuffle and transferred to the less influential post of Minister for Secondary and Higher Education. After massive demonstrations among school and university students in June 1985, Michel Alladaye was finally sacked on June 11, 1985 as Minister of Secondary and Higher Education. At the same time he lost his offices within the Parti de la Révolution Populaire du Benin and the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) . The Minister for Culture, Youth and Sport Moussa Ali Traore , who was replaced by Ousmane Dankoto , was also dismissed .
Web links
- Mathurin C. Houngnikpo, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Benin , p. 48
- Entry in prabook.com
- Entry in rulers.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Dahomey / Benin: Foreign Ministers
- ↑ Siegfried Bock: GDR foreign policy: an overview: data, facts, people , pp. 165, 171, Volume III, LIT Verlag Münster, 2010
- ^ A Political Chronology of Africa , p. 33, Routledge, 2003
- ↑ Africa Research Bulletin: Political series , p. 7674, Volume 22, Africa Research Limited, 1985
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| SURNAME | Alladaye, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Beninese politician and officer (Republic of Dahomey, People's Republic of Benin) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abomey , French Dahomey |