- Luc Ayang
Luc Ayang (born 1947 [http://www.spm.gov.cm/showgouv.php?module=showindividu&lang=fr&pers=131 Official government biography] fr icon.] ) is a
Cameroon ian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1983 to 1984. He is currently the President of the Economic and Social Council.Ayang was born in Doukoula, in Karhay District of
Mayo-Danaï Department inFar North Province , and he graduated from theUniversity of Yaounde with a degree in law and economics in 1972. In March 1975, he was appointed to a post in the Secretariat-General of the Presidency, as Head of the Service of Legislation and Regulation in the Division of Administrative and Legal Affairs. He was then named First Deputy Prefect ofNgaoundéré in September 1976, before entering the government as Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries on2 May 1978 . After five years in that position, he became Prime Minister of Cameroon, on an interim basis,Luc Sindjoun, [http://www.histoire-du-cameroun.com/?a_id=291 "LE PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE AU CAMEROUN"] , histoire-du-cameroun.com fr icon.] under PresidentPaul Biya , serving from22 August 1983 to25 January 1984 , when the post of Prime Minister was eliminated through a constitutional amendment.Since 1984, Ayang has been the President of the Economic and Social Council. [Pauline Biyong, [http://www.genreenaction.net/IMG/pdf/jounal_72_ok.pdf "Cri citoyen d'une femme"] , "Journal La Cité" N°72, Special, October 2006, page 3.] He is also a member of the Political Bureau of the ruling
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement . [ [http://www.rdpcpdm.cm/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=55 "Les membres du bureau politique"] , RDPC website fr icon.] During the campaign for the 2004 presidential election, Ayang was a vice-president of the support and follow-up committee of Biya's election campaign in the Far North Province. [ [http://www.presidentielle2004.gov.cm/detail_art.php?id_art=79&lang=en "President Paul Biya selects campaign team"] , 2004 presidential election website.]He is married with three children.
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