Kanja Ibrahim Sesay

Alhaji Kanja Ibrahim Sesay (born 1955) is the former commissioner of the Sierra Leone National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA). He was sacked as commissioner of the NaCSA by president Ernest Bai Koroma in October 2007.^[1] While as a student at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, he acted as 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 Mandingo parents. Kanja Sesay attended Bo Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School and the Bo Government Secondary School (commonly known as Bo School)for his secondary ED. 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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