Background
Nanlo Bamba was born on November 15,1916, at Bouake, in the central part of the country.
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Nanlo Bamba
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Educated at Beoumi, Bouake and Bingerville, he later obtained a diploma at the Ecole Normale William Ponty, Senegal. After getting an LLB degree (Paris) he did a further year of law studies for a Diploma of Higher Studies (DES).
Career
In 1947 he was appointed to thi French Overseas Ministry in Paris, where he stayed until 1951. The following year he became Director of the local Department of Finance in Abidjan, but he was transferred in 1954 to Cotonou, Dahomey, as Assistant Public Prosecutor, only to return the following year to the Ivory
Coast, this time as Justice of Peace in Bondoukou. In 1956 he went back to Paris for a two-year course at the French National Overseas College, where he obtained a diploma in 1958.
In 1959 he was made Deputy Public Prosecutor in Bouake, Ivory Coast, and promoted to Examining Magistrate in Abidjan. Brought by President Houphouet Boigny into his immediate entourage as Chef de Cabinet in 1959, he was also Director of the National Public Forces (police). Made Assistant Director of Cabinet at the Presidency in August 1961, he entered the government on February 15, 1963, as Minister of Justice and Guardian of the Seals. On December 28, 1969, while dealing with a separatist movement near the border with Ghana.
He became Minister of Interior in January 1966 and was confirmed in his post in the reshuffles of January 5, 1970, and June 8,1971.
Politics
This incorruptible former magistrate has been, for a decade, President Houphouet Boigny’s top policeman. He has created few friends in the process: being Minister of Interior in a pacifist country, where one quarter of the population is made up of foreigners, can be an unrewarding job. His good mind and sense of fair play, allied to a solid academic background, have helped him in his task.
Personality
He coined a phrase which was to become famous: ‘T'here are no plots in the Ivory Coast.”
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Cote d'Ivoire
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1966