Is a pillar of the regime of Alassane Ouattara, who went away, struck by a dazzling cancer. Hamed Bakayoko, who was 56 years old, was evacuated on February 18 to the American hospital in Neuilly before being transferred to Germany, when his state of health had deteriorated. His death was announced on Wednesday March 10 in a statement read on public television, RTI. Self-taught, popular personality in Ivory Coast, considered a bon vivant, loved by Ivorians of all stripes, Hamed Bakayoko did not have, a priori, the assets to enter the circle closest to Alassane Ouattara. And yet three months before the presidential election in October 2020, and following the death of the former Prime Minister and Dauphin of the Head of State, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, it was to him that the heavy task of resume the post. His name had even circulated as presidential … And for good reason, Hamed Bakayoko, who is affectionately known in the country, “Hambak” had over the years made himself indispensable to President Ouattara, who in turn, from his seizure of power, his Minister of the Interior in 2011 before placing him at the head of Defense in 2017.
It was only after his stay in Paris on March 3 that the Head of State resigned himself to appointing, on Monday March 8, Patrick Achi, secretary general of the presidency, as the prime minister and Tené Birahima Ouattara, his brother. cadet in Presidential Affairs, and Defense. This Wednesday evening, President Ouattara announced the sad news on Twitter and offered his condolences. “Our country is in mourning” he writes, I have the immense pain of announcing the death of the Prime Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, Head of Government, Minister of Defense, this Wednesday March 10, 2021, in Germany, of the consequences of a cancer. “Before continuing with strong tributes” to the Prime Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, my son and close collaborator, too soon torn from our affection. ”
An atypical course that takes root in activism
Hamed Bakayoko was born in the Habitat-Extension district, in the municipality of Adjamé. His family is pious and conservative, descended from Muslim scholars known to the family of El-Hadji Moussa Bakayoko, the very one who, according to legend, founded the town of Koro, in the north-west of Côte d’Ivoire. Ivory. Raised by his widowed father with his brother and two sisters, Hamed Bakayoko left at the end of high school for Burkina Faso to study medicine. He will not go to the end, because in Ouaga this music lover in love with Ivorian rhythms and accustomed to clubs wakes up to politics, discovers Thomas Sankara and the speeches of struggle.
On his return to Abidjan, he began to campaign within the Movement of Students and Pupils of Côte d’Ivoire (MEECI), a union close to the PDCI-RDA (African Democratic Rally). This gave him the idea of ​​founding in the 90s the student and school youth movement of the PDCI (JESPDCI). Never mind, why not found a newspaper. Hamed Bakayoko launches The Patriot, which wants to be close to Houphouët-Boigny and the PDCI. The Old Man is not sensitive to it and Hamed Bakayoko decides to put himself at the service of the defense of the Prime Minister of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Alassane Ouattara. He has just launched with Djéni Kobina the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and The Patriot becomes its press organ. But Henri Konan Bédié, Ouattara’s great rival, could not digest one of the reader’s letters that attacked him. Bakayoko was sent to Maca detention in Abidjan for four months and sixteen days.
A turning point: the meeting with Dominique Ouattara
After his release, he started radio before meeting the one who would become the first lady of Côte d’Ivoire, Dominique Ouattara, who invested in her media. Since that time, a relationship of trust has developed between the two men who have grown closer over the years. To the point that when on April 11, 2011, Laurent Gbagbo was finally arrested in his residence in Cocody by the Republican Forces of Côte d’Ivoire (FRCI), Alassane Ouattara appointed Hamed Bakayoko to ensure the protection of the former president at the hotel of Golf.
Married to the very discreet Yolande Bakayoko for more than twenty years, a Freemason and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Côte d’Ivoire, Hamed Bakayoko was a personality of weight within the Ouattara clan.
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