Innocent Anaky

Innocent Kobena Anaky (born 27 July 1948) is an Ivorian politician and the President of the Movement of the Forces of the Future (MFA), an opposition party. He served in the government of Côte d'Ivoire as Minister of State for Transport from 2003 to 2006.

Anaky was born in Bondoukou and was an adopted son of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He founded the Inter Transit company in the late 1970s and headed the company as its President Director-General. In November 1988, he participated in the constitutive congress of the opposition Ivorian Popular Front (FPI). Anaky used money from his business to finance the FPI. Houphouët-Boigny loaned Anaky 100 million CFA francs for the company, but Anaky allegedly used some of that money to support the FPI. As a result of his political activities, Anaky was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was released in 1991.

In December 1992, Anaky established his own political party, the Movement of the Forces of the Future. Following the December 1999 coup d'etat, he was arrested. In the December 2000–January 2001 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as an MFA candidate in Kouassi-Datèkro constituency; he was the only MFA candidate to win a seat. Following a political agreement in 2003, he was appointed to the government as Minister of State for Transport. He headed a delegation to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in May 2003 to engage in talks regarding trade routes through Côte d'Ivoire that had been closed to Burkina Faso due to the outbreak of the Ivorian Civil War in 2002.

In the midst of a scandal regarding the dumping of toxic waste, he was attacked and beaten by angry residents of Abidjan, who also damaged his car, in mid-September 2006; he was saved by security forces. He was excluded from the government in a cabinet reshuffle at the time of the scandal. Anaky placed blame for the dumping of the toxic waste on port and district authorities.

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