The Chief of the Defence Staff (French : Chef d'etat major général des armées ) is the highest-ranking military officer in the Benin Armed Forces and is responsible for maintaining control over the service branches.
List of officeholders
No.
Portrait
Name(Birth–Death)
Term of office
Defence branch
Ref.
Took office
Left office
Time in office
Major general Fernand Amoussou [fr ] (born 1955)
2000
17 August 2005
4–5 years
Army
Major generalMathieu Amoussa Chabi Boni (born 1956)
17 August 2005
28 March 2012
6 years, 224 days
Army
[ 1]
Major generalSoumanou Oke (born 1955)
28 March 2012
30 June 2012
94 days
Army
[ 2]
Brigadier general Emmanuel Joseph Akpona (born 1957)
30 June 2012
28 January 2013
212 days
Army
[ 3]
Counter admiral Denis Hounsou Gbèssèmèhlan
28 January 2013
30 December 2015
2 years, 336 days
Navy
[ 4]
Brigadier general Awal Djibril Bouko Nagnimi
30 December 2015
16 September 2016
261 days
Army
[ 5]
Brigadier general Laurent Amoussou
16 September 2016
14 November 2018
2 years, 59 days
Army
[ 6]
Counter admiralPatrick Jean Baptiste Aho (born 1960)
14 November 2018
12 April 2022
3 years, 149 days
Navy
[ 7]
Brigadier generalFructueux Candide Ahodegnon Gbaguidi
12 April 2022
Incumbent
2 years, 232 days
Army
[ 8]
References
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