Sierra Leone War-Time Leader Ahmad Tejan Kabba Dies

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah died on the 13 SSSSmarch 2014 at the age of 82 after a severely week of illness. Kabbah died on Thursday afternoon at his home with his close friends, family, his five children and three grandchildren by his side. Kabbah have two wives Patricia Kabbah who died in 1998 and Issta Jabbie Kabbah. It was an irreparable loss for the country. Tejan was praised for his leadership in the civil war which lasted for a long time.  He was the first former head of state convicted by international court since Nazi after World War II. He was the first Muslim to have a sit at the head of state. An ethnic Mandingo and was born in Pendembu, Kailahun District in Eastern Sierra Leone but he was eased in the capital Freetown. Kabbah served as a chief of deputy of the Western Africa Division of the UN Development Programmed (UNDP) in New York and retire in 1992. The UN was against Kabbah of running for presidency in 1996 and some of his follower companion they think he was unprepared .He later wrote a book Coming Back from the Brink in Sierra Leone. In his book page 40 he wrote “An Army? What Army? “ The greatest challenge I face on assuming the presidency in 1996 was in the area of peace and security( Although) there were many  dedicated soldiers who were prepared to defend motherland, there were others whose loyalty was deeply questionable….outgoing NPRC  elements who were not in favor of handing over power to a civilian administration.” Tejan save people from slavery and hunger. Kabbah was with the SLPP (Sierra Leone People Party).  He was known as a peace maker of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The people of Sierra Leone will never forget his bravery and the leading of the civil war for 11-years.