Mohammed Mana
| Mohammed Mana | |
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| Administrator of Plateau State | |
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In office 9 December 1993 – 22 August 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Fidelis Tapgun |
| Succeeded by | Habibu Idris Shuaibu |
| Nigerian Senator | |
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In office 29 May 2007 – May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Abubakar Iya |
| Succeeded by | Bindo Jibrilla |
| Constituency | Adamawa South |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 October 1950 |
| Political party | People's Democratic Party (PDP) |
Brigadier General (retired) Mohammed Mana (born 7 October 1950) was appointed Administrator of Plateau State between December 1993 and August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. He was elected Senator for Adamawa North in 2007 on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform.
Mana was born on 7 October 1950. He attended the Government College, Keffi. He obtained a diploma in Petroleum Technology from the US Army Quartermaster School in 1976. In 1987 he obtained a diploma in Public Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
As Governor of Plateau State, in 1994 Lt. Col. Mohammed Mana set up a commission to look into the inter-ethnic conflict in Jos. The problems were due to friction between the Berom, Anaguta, and Afizere tribes on the one hand, and the Hausa-Fulani tribes on the other hand. Riots had been triggered by Mana's appointment of a Hausa man as "caretaker Committee chairman" of Jos.
Mana retired from the military in June 1999 when President Olusegun Obasanjo decreed that all former military administrators must retire.
After becoming Senator in May 2007, Mana was appointed to committees on Selection, Power and Integration and Cooperation. He was also appointed deputy chief whip of the Senate. He sponsored an Amendment Bill on Border Areas Development Commission, 2009 and a Bill for an Act on Tobacco Control, 2009. Talking in March 2009 on the Electoral Reform report of the committee headed by Justice Mohammed Uwais, he recommended that the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission be appointed by the executive, but subject to judicial review.
After the February 2010 coup in Niger, the senate President David Mark asked urged Mohammed Mana and Senator John Shagaya of Plateau State to use their close ties with the new military leaders of Niger to urge them to embrace democracy. In March 2010 Mana was appointed to a 20-man committee to find ways to permanently solve the Jos crisis, where there had been endemic violence between Muslims and Christians.
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