Kanja Sesay

Alhaji Ibrahim Kanja Sesay
Commissioner of the Sierra Leone National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA).
In office
2002 – October 2007
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Personal details
Born 1955
Bo, Sierra Leone
Nationality Sierra Leonean
Political party Non officially but affiliating with the SLPP
Residence Freetown, Sierra Leone
Alma mater Fourah Bay College
Profession Economist
Religion Islam

Alhaji Ibrahim Kanja Sesay (born in 1955 in Bo, Sierra Leone) is the former commissioner of the Sierra Leone National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA). He was sacked as commissioner of the Sierra Leone National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) by Sierra Leone's current president Ernest Bai Koroma in October 2007 [1]. He is the current Financial Secretary of Bo District Students Union and Secretary General of the Fourah Bay College Students Union. He is a member of the Mandingo ethnic group.

Kanja Sesay was one of several ethnic Mandingo to hold key government and civil service positions under president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah administration.

Education and career

Alhaji Kanja Ibrahim Sesay was born in 1955 Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone to muslim parents from the Mandingo ethnic group. Kanja Sesay completed his secondary education at the Bo Government Secondary School (commonly known as Bo School) in 1975.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the Fourah Bay College in Freetown and a Master's degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in Hague, Netherlands in 1987.

After graduating from University he taught for a several years at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School and Prince of Wales Secondary Schools in Freetown before launching a career in the field of development in 1982 as Projects Officer at the Catholic Relief services. In April 1994, he became Chairman, Executive Committee of the Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (SLANGO), a position he held until June 1996.

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