Haja Afsatu Kabba

A controversial political figure to be investigated for alleged corruption by the conntry's Anti Corruption Commission. Only last week her 'corrupt' practices in offices were openly criticised by no less a person than her own deputy in the Marine Resources ministry, Oya Sankoh.(Courtesy, Awareness Times Jan 16, 2010)

Haja Afsatu Kabba (born July 2, 1953) is a Sierra Leonean politician with the All People's Congress (APC). She is currently Sierra Leone's Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources. She is one of two women politician in the country's current cabinet, along with Zainab Hawa Bangura. She is a member of the Mandingo ethnic group and a native of Koinadugu District in Northern Sierra Leone.

Early life

Haja Afsatu Kabba was born in the town of Kabala, Koinadugu District, located in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, to Muslim parents from the Mandingo ethnic group. She completed her primary education in her hometown of Kabala and attended the Ahmaddiyya Muslim Secondary School in Freetown.

Political career

On 14 May, 2002 Sierra Leone general election, Haja Afsatu Kabba ran for seat in parliament as candidate of the then opposition All People's Congress (APC) from the Western Area Urban District. She won one of four seats in parliament reserve for the Western Area Urban, but her party's presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma won only 19.4% of the vote in the presidential election compared to the incumbent President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) 70%. On October 16, 2007, newly elected Sierra leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma named Haja Afsatu Kabba as the country's minister of energy and power.

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External links

• http://www.cocorioko.net/Fridayoctober122007p2.html