Mohamed B. Daramy

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Alhaji Mohamed B. Daramy(b. 1955 in Panguma, Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema District) is a Sierra Leonean politician. Daramy has many years of experience in industry, the private sector and in government having served as inister of Labour, minister of Trade, minister of Transportation, minister of Finance and, recently minister of Development and Economic Planning.

[edit] Early life and education

Daramy was born to Late Alhaji Kemoh Daramy and Hadja Nmama Turay Daramy at Panguma, Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema District within the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Both of his parents came from the Mandingo ethnic group.

He completed his primary education at the Kailahun Primary School in Kailahun and later attended the Bo Government Secondary School in Bo where he successfully attained both his O and A level certificates.

Daramy moved to the United States where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a Finance major. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).

He is a former excellent soccer star who earned All-American status while at his at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He was drafted to play professional football but he turn down de offer to concentrate on school.