Adama Bictogo

A fortnight of political drama in Côte d'Ivoire began on 26 January when President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and family appeared before a capacity crowd at the main stadium in Abidjan to launch the first congress of the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) organised by businessman and political heavyweight Adama Bictogo...

There was satisfaction all round particularly for the powerful political operator party financier and businessman Adama Bictogo who had been tasked with organising the congress...

Agboville near Abidjan will be represented by RDR/RHDP bigwig Adama Bictogo the influential businessman who runs a lucrative online visa service the Société nationale d'édition de documents administratifs et d'identification (SNEDAI) and whose lake buses started plying the Ebrie Lagoon in Abidjan in December under the banner Société de transport lagunaire...

Other prominent party people such as its Secretary for Political Affairs Adama Bictogo have sought to reassure party activists that the RHDP will be very much like the RDR...

A former minister under scrutiny is Adama Bictogo who resigned in 2012 amid accusations of misappropriation of compensation payments to the victims of the Trafigura toxic waste scandal (AC Vol 50 No 18 Trafigura and the toxic waste)...

The Ivorian former African Integration Minister Adama Bictogo got the contract to process the biometric visas for his company the Société nationale d'édition de documents administratifs et d'identification without competitive tendering (AC Vol 55 No 15 Polls beckon as Hollande flies in)...

Also in the Political Bureau is the ex-Minister for African Integration Adama Bictogo...

Global Witness claims cocoa beans from rebel areas are exported to Burkina Faso under Ivorian oppositionist Adama Bictogo's control then shipped through Lomé Togo...