Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere

Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere (1952[1] – 11 January 2005) was a Beninese politician. He was the Fourth Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament.[2]

He was elected to the National Assembly of Benin for the first time in the 1991 parliamentary election and was again elected in 1995. He was a founding member of the Action Front for Renewal and Development (FARD-Alafia) in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, he served as Minister of Rural Development under President Mathieu Kérékou.[1] In the March 1999 parliamentary election he was again elected to the National Assembly as a FARD-Alafia candidate,[3] and he became President of the Solidarity and Progress Parliamentary Group following the election.[4] In the March 2003 parliamentary election, he was elected as a Union for Future Benin (UBF) candidate[5] (with FARD-Alafia being one of the component parties of the UBF). He also served as First Vice-President of the National Assembly.[1]

He was elected Fourth Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament when it was inaugurated in March 2004.[6] He was representing the Pan-African Parliament at Ghanaian President John Kufuor's inauguration for his second term in Accra when he fell ill, and he subsequently died in Benin on 11 January 2005.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Séminaire parlementaire", Assemblée Parliamentaire de la Francophonie, 8–10 March 2004 (French).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Speech delivered by the President of Pan-African Parliament Honourable Ambassador Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella, MP at the opening ceremony of the Pan-African Parliament's third session, 29 March 2005.
  3. Results of the 1999 parliamentary election, bj.refer.org (French).
  4. "Publication des déclarations de constitution de groupes parlementaires intervenues le 10 mai 1999.", bj.refer.org (French).
  5. List of deputies elected in the 2003 election, Benin government page.
  6. "INAUGURAL AND THE FIRST SESSION OF THE PANAFRICAN PARLIAMENT", press release, africa-union.org, 19 March 2004.