Sacca Lafia (born October 21, 1944)
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ese politician who has served in the government of Benin as Minister of the Interior since 2016. Previously he was Minister of Mines, Energy, and Water under President

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, beginning in 2007. He is president of the Union for Democracy and National Solidarity (UDS), a political party.

Life and career

A veterinarian by training, Lafia was first elected to the

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in the March 1999 parliamentary election,Results of the 1999 parliamentary election
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(''Alliance Etoile'') candidates to be elected. He was the UDS candidate in the March 2001 presidential election, receiving 1.20% of the vote and fifth place, and in the March 2003 parliamentary election he was one of three Star Alliance candidates elected to the National Assembly. In the March 2007 parliamentary election, Lafia was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the

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. He also served as first vice-president of the National Assembly. In the government of President

named on June 17, 2007, Lafia was appointed as Minister of Mines, Energy, and Water. In the April 2015 parliamentary election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as a Sun Alliance candidate in the 8th constituency. When

Patrice Talon Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon (born 1 May 1958) is a Beninese politician and businessman who has been President of Benin since 6 April 2016. Early life and career Talon is of Fon origin and was born in Ouidah. He descends from slave trader ...

took office as

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on 6 April 2016, he appointed Lafia as Minister of the Interior and Public Security.Vincent Duhem
"Bénin : Patrice Talon nomme un gouvernement sans Premier ministre"
''Jeune Afrique'', 6 April 2016 .

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