Nouhou Bako

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Nouhou Bako (* 1944 in Matankari ) is a Nigerien officer .

Life

Nouhou Bako became a member of the Nigerien armed forces after attending elementary and middle school in 1964 . He was initially deployed in the 2nd motorized Sahara company in Agadez . In 1974, when he held the rank of lieutenant , he became aide-de-camp of President Hamani Diori , who was deposed a few months later by a military coup led by Seyni Kountché .

In the same year Bako became commander of the armed forces training center, later commander of the paratroopers , the 2nd motorized Sahara company and - in 1983 - the defense zone No. 2 in the north of the country. From 1987 to 1991 he worked as prefect in various departments: in 1987, initially for a few weeks in the Niamey department , then from 1987 to 1989 in the Diffa department , then from 1989 to 1990 in the Zinder department and finally from 1990 to 1991 in the Tillabéri department . In May 1989 he took part in the founding congress of the National Development Society Movement , the then Unity Party . After his work as prefect, he was military advisor to the prefect of the Dosso department and the president of the Niamey municipal association. In 1995 Bako was promoted to General Inspector of the Armed Forces and promoted to colonel .

In a military coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in January 1996, the Council of National Welfare , a twelve-member military junta , including Nouhou Bako, took power in the state . In the Republican Guard, which was converted into the National Intervention and Security Forces in 1997, Bako took over the supreme command from 1996 to 1999. The Council of National Welfare was dissolved at the end of 1996, but Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara remained head of state through the rigged presidential elections of 1996 . Baré Maïnassara not only had no support in large parts of the Nigerien party landscape, he was also controversial in the ranks of the armed forces. In fact, Nouhou Bako was one of the few military leaders who were unconditionally loyal to him.

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was killed in another military coup in 1999. Nouhou Bako retired that same year. He later supported the Alliance for Democracy and Progress , the party that sought to preserve the legacy of Baré Maïnassara.

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. 375-376 .
  2. ↑ Boubacar Issa Abdourhamane: Alternances militaires au Niger . In: Politique africaine . No. 74 , 1999, pp. 90 ( cairn.info [accessed June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Bako, Nouhou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Matankari