Mr Solomon Ekuma Dominic Berewa (Solo B)

Former Vice President (2002-2007)

Date of Birth: 06/08/1938
Place of Birth: Bumpe Chiefdom

Education: Christ the King College, Bo, Sierra Leone; Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; Stanford Hall, Loughborough Cooperative College, United Kingdom, 1967-67; University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 1968; Inns of Court School of Law, London, 1970-73.

Career: Cooperative officer, Government of Sierra Leone, 1966-70; Founding partner, Betts & Berewa-Solicitors, 1980-96; Special prosecutor, The Reublic of The Gambia, 1982; Attorney general and Minster of Justice, 1996-2002; Vice President, Republic of Sierra leone, 2002-07; Defeated candidate of the 2007 Presidential elections, Sierra Leone.

Commentary: The favoured Sierra Leone People's Party candidate in August 2007's Presidential elections, Solomon lost to Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress. The traditional SLPP vote was split for these elections after Charles Margai, politician, lawyer, nephew and son of previous SLPP Prime Ministers Milton and Albert respectively, broke away to form the People's Movement for Democratic Change. He had lost the SLPP leadership in 1996 to Kabbah, then in 2005 to Berewa.