Benin: Celebration As Boni Takes Over

7 April 2006

Cotonou — IT was celebration galore in Benin yesterday as the newly-elected President Yayi Boni took his oath of office as the country's 12th president in an epoch making ceremony watched by high profile international audience including President Olusegun Obasanjo and five other West African leaders

Dr Boni who was sworn-in at Porto Novo, the country's political capital was presented to the excited audience by the country's president of the constitutional court, Conceptia Ouinsou.

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