Kanidoua Naboho (born 1952Page on Naboho
at petiteacademie.gov.bf .) is a Burkinabé politician who served as First Vice-President of the

National Assembly of Burkina Faso The unicameral National Assembly is Burkina Faso's legislative body. In 1995, it became the lower house of a bicameral Parliament, but the upper house ( Chamber of Representatives) was abolished in 2002. The upper house was to have been restored ...

until 2014. He was previously a minister in the government during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Life and career

Naboho was born in

Houndé Houndé is a city located in the province of Tuy (of which it is the capital) in the Hauts-Bassins Region of Burkina Faso. It is situated about 100 km east by northeast of Bobo-Dioulasso along the trunk road Route nationale N1 to Ouagadou ...

, located in the Tuy Province of Burkina Faso's Hauts Bassins Region. After attending school in Burkina Faso, he studied at

Cheikh Anta Diop University Cheikh Anta Diop University (french: Université Cheikh Anta Diop or UCAD), also known as the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal. It is named after the Senegalese physicist, historian and anthropologist Chei ...

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and graduated with a degree in

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

. Back in Burkina Faso, he became the head doctor at the medical center of

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in 1981, then Provincial Director of Health in Gourma in 1984. Later, he was appointed to the government and served as Minister of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Security from 1988 to 1989, then as Minister of Health and Social Action from 1989 to 1990. Naboho was elected to the National Assembly in the May 1992 parliamentary election. On 19 June 1992, Naboho was appointed as a Minister of State (without portfolio); he was subsequently appointed as Minister of State for Territorial Administration in 1993 and was moved to the post of Minister of State for Defense in 1994. He was not included the government that was named on 11 June 1995. In the May 1997 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the

Congress for Democracy and Progress The Congress for Democracy and Progress (french: Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès, ''CDP'') was the ruling party in Burkina Faso from 1996 until the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in 2014. History The party was founded in February 199 ...

(CDP). In the May 2007 parliamentary election, he was again elected to the National Assembly as a CDP candidate, and he became the First Vice-President of the National Assembly. Naboho was designated as the CDP's Deputy National Executive Secretary, in charge of political orientation, at the CDP's fifth congress, held in March 2012. In the December 2012 parliamentary election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly, and he was re-elected to his post as First Vice-President of the National Assembly in January 2013."Assemblée nationale(AN) : Le bureau et les groupes parlementaires en place"
Lefaso.net, 29 January 2013 .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Naboho, Kanidoua 1952 births Living people Members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso Cheikh Anta Diop University alumni Government ministers of Burkina Faso Defence ministers of Burkina Faso Health ministers of Burkina Faso Congress for Democracy and Progress politicians People from Hauts-Bassins Region 21st-century Burkinabé people