Hama Amadou

Hama Amadou
Amadou in 2011
Prime Minister of Niger
In office 1 January 2000 – 7 June 2007
President	Mamadou Tandja
Preceded by	Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki
Succeeded by	Seyni Oumarou
In office 21 February 1995 – 27 January 1996
President	Mahamane Ousmane
Preceded by	Amadou Cissé
Succeeded by	Boukary Adji
President of the National Assembly
In office 19 April 2011 – 24 November 2014
Preceded by	Seyni Oumarou
Succeeded by	Amadou Salifou
Minister of Information
In office 15 July 1988 – 20 December 1989
President	Ali Saibou
Prime Minister	Mamane Oumarou
Personal details
Born	1950 (age 73–74) Youri, Niger
Political party	MNSD-Nassara (1989–2010) MODEN/FA-Lumana (2010–present)

Hama Amadou (born 1950^[1]) is a Nigerien politician who was Prime Minister of Niger from 1995 to 1996 and again from 2000 to 2007. He was also Secretary-General of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD-Nassara) from 1991 to 2001 and President of the MNSD-Nassara from 2001 to 2009. Amadou is from the Kurtey, a Fula^[2] sub-group, and was raised in the Tillaberi Region, in the Niger River valley, north of Niamey.

Following corruption allegations against his government, he was removed from office as Prime Minister through a 2007 no-confidence vote in the National Assembly. In 2008, he became the target of a corruption investigation which saw him arrested to face criminal charges at the Nigerien High Court of Justice and removed from his post as MNSD President.

From 2011 to 2014, Amadou was President of the National Assembly of Niger. He was elected to that post as an ally of President Mahamadou Issoufou, but in 2013 he went into opposition. He fled Niger in August 2014 to escape arrest on charges related to a baby-trafficking investigation. Upon those charges, Amadou was sentenced to one year in prison, in March 2017, by the Niamey Court of Appeals.^[3] Amadou was tried in absentia, since he was exiled in France.^[4]