Soccoh Kabia

      Soccoh Kabia
      Minister of Social Welfare and Children's Affairs
      Incumbent
      Assumed office
      October 26, 2007
      President Ernest Bai Koroma
      Preceded by Shirly Gbujama
      Personal details
      Born Bo, Sierra Leone
      Nationality Sierra Leonean
      Political party People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC)
      Residence Freetown, Sierra Leone
      Religion Christianity

      Soccoh Kabia is a Sierra Leonean consultant physician and nephrologist and politician who serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Social Welfare and Children's Affairs.[1] He is currently the only member of the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) political party in the current cabinet of Ernest Bai Koroma.

      He is the son of one of the most famous women leaders in the history of Sierra Leone, Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama, an ethnic Mende from Moyamba District and Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II, an ethnic Temne from Lunsar, Port Loko District.

      Kabia attended medical school in the United States. He spent over thirty years as a medical doctor in the United States.

      References

      1. ^ Tarawallie, Ibrahim (7 October 2009). "Sierra Leone: MPs May Reject Disability Bill". AllAfrica.com. Retrieved 25 September 2010. 
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