Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere

Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere (1952 [http://apf.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/actes_seminaire_brazzaville2004.pdf "Séminaire parlementaire"] , Assemblée Parliamentaire de la Francophonie, 8–10 March 2004 fr icon.] –11 January 2005) was a Beninese politician. He was the Fourth Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament. [http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0001184/index.php Speech delivered by the President of Pan-African Parliament Honourable Ambassador Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella, MP] at the opening ceremony of the Pan-African Parliament's third session, 29 March 2005.]

He was elected to the National Assembly of Benin for the first time in the 1991 parliamentary election and was again elected in 1995. He was a founding member of the Action Front for Renewal and Development (FARD-Alafia) in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, he served as Minister of Rural Development under President Mathieu Kérékou. In the March 1999 parliamentary election he was again elected to the National Assembly as a FARD-Alafia candidate, [ [http://www.bj.refer.org/benin_ct/med/jo/jo10/infocc.htm Results of the 1999 parliamentary election] , bj.refer.org fr icon.] and he became President of the Solidarity and Progress Parliamentary Group following the election. [ [http://www.bj.refer.org/benin_ct/med/jo/jo14/assemb.htm "Publication des déclarations de constitution de groupes parlementaires intervenues le 10 mai 1999."] , bj.refer.org fr icon.] In the March 2003 parliamentary election, he was elected as a Union for Future Benin (UBF) candidate [ [http://www.legislatives2003.gouv.bj/actualites/archives/edition040403/actu1.html List of deputies elected in the 2003 election] , Benin government page.] (with FARD-Alafia being one of the component parties of the UBF). He also served as First Vice-President of the National Assembly.

He was elected Fourth Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament when it was inaugurated in March 2004. [ [http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/organs/Pan-African_Parliament_en.htm "INAUGURAL AND THE FIRST SESSION OF THE PANAFRICAN PARLIAMENT"] , press release, africa-union.org, 19 March 2004.] He was representing the Pan-African Parliament at Ghanaian President John Kufuor's inauguration for his second term in Accra when he fell ill, and he subsequently died in Benin on 11 January 2005.

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