Issifou Okoulou-Kantchati

Issifou Okoulou-Kantchati (23 January 1951 – 20 October 2016) was a Togolese politician, who last served in the government of Togo as Minister of City Planning and Housing.

Biography Okoulou-Kantchati was born in Mango, located in the Oti Prefecture of Togo. He studied in France and became a member of the Central Committee of the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) in 1977. He was Quaestor of the High Council of the Republic, which was established as the transitional parliament in 1991. Baba then narrowly defeated him in the second round, receiving 51.41% of the vote.

Okoulou-Kantchati later joined the RPT. In the March 1999 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as the RPT candidate in the First Constituency of Oti Prefecture; he faced no opposition and won the seat with 100% of the vote. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the October 2002 parliamentary election and served as President of the Finance Commission in the National Assembly. On 29 July 2003, Okoulou-Kantchati was appointed to the government as Minister of Energy and Water Resources.

His house in Mango was attacked by opposition supporters amidst the violence that surrounded the April 2005 presidential election. After that election, he was moved to the post of Minister of the Environment and Forest Resources on 20 June 2005. and won a seat. At the time of the election, he was the RPT Coordinator in Savanes Region. Following the election, he was designated as one of seven members of a committee to amend the National Assembly's rules of procedure on 14 November 2007. He remained in the government that was formed after the election in December 2007.