Koffi Gbékandé Eric Kpadé (born September 23, 1958) is a Togo

Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

lese politician of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People

Rally of the Togolese People

The Rally of the Togolese People is the ruling political party in Togo. The President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, is also the National President of the RPT....

 (RPT) who served in the National Assembly of Togo

National Assembly of Togo

The unicameral National Assembly of Togo is the country's legislative body. It has a total of 81 members who are elected in a party list proportional representation system...

 from 1999 to 2007.

Kpadé was born in Lomé

Lomé

Lomé, with an estimated population of 737,751, is the capital and largest city of Togo. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center and its chief port. The city exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and palm kernels...

. He was a customs inspector from 1992 to 1993 before serving as Prefect of Lacs Prefecture

Lacs, Togo

Lacs is a prefecture located in the Maritime Region of Togo. The prefecture seat is located in Aného. It contains Togo's farthest east point....

 from 1993 to 1996 and as Prefect of Tchaoudjo Prefecture

Tchaoudjo

Tchaoudjo is a prefecture located in the Centrale Region of Togo. The capital city is Sokodé....

 from 1996 to 1997. He was elected to the National Assembly in the March 1999 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 1999

Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on 21 March 1999. They were boycotted by the eight opposition parties, who been rebuffed in their insistence that talks following the controversial presidential election the previous year must be completed prior to the parliamentary election...

, as the RPT candidate in the Third Constituency of Lacs Prefecture, winning the seat with 65.25% of the vote. From May 1999 to October 2002, he was Vice-President of the Commission of Finance and Trade in the National Assembly; he was also appointed as a member of the National Commission for the Fight Against Corruption and Economic Sabotage on September 14, 2001. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the October 2002 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 2002

Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on 27 October 2002. Like the previous elections in 1999, they were boycotted by nine opposition parties , following the replacement of the Independent National Electoral Commission by a seven-magistrate committee and a revision of the Electoral Code...

 from the Third Constituency of Lacs Prefecture, and in December 2002 he was elected as the Second Vice-President of the National Assembly.

At the RPT's 9th Congress in December 2006, Kpadé was elected as a member of the RPT Central Committee from Lacs Prefecture. He was the first candidate on the RPT's candidate list for Lacs Prefecture in the October 2007 parliamentary election

Togolese parliamentary election, 2007

A parliamentary election was held in Togo on October 14, 2007 for the 81 seats in the National Assembly. There were over 2,000 candidates, with 32 parties and 41 lists of independent candidates competing. The ruling Rally of the Togolese People was victorious, winning a majority of 50 seats...

, but did not win a seat, as all three of the available seats in Lacs went to the opposition Union of the Forces of Change (UFC).