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Sierra Leone

Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser

Date of Birth: 26 April 1967
Place of Birth: Freetown, Sierra Leone


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Champagne for the candidates

Late that year the government issued a cabinet paper which stated that the NPRC head at the time Captain Valentine Strasser had received $602 000 from the passport sales with $380 000 going to Bio...


Ferry fiasco dents Koroma’s standing

He was one of the officers who overthrew the last APC government of Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh in 1992 and later staged a palace coup against Captain Valentine Strasser of the National Provisional Ruling Council which ruled in 1992-1996...


Model justice, for some

Manoeuvring for position the ambitious John Benjamin who was the only civilian in Captain Valentine Strasser's National Provisional Ruling Council (1992-6) has quit his National Unity Party for Kabbah's SLPP a sudden convert to the idea that the country should have no more than two political movements...


Home made, world class

Harnessing energy A creative United Nations bureaucrat Kandeh Yumkella a former minister in Valentine Strasser's military government in Sierra Leone represents the UN Industrial Development Organisation in Nigeria...


Heading for the door

Nicol is a former Inspector General of Police who was sacked in 1994 by Captain Valentine Strasser's military government for alleged 'subversive political activities'...


Moving the mandate

Joseph Momoh; they stayed loyal to Captain Valentine Strasser's and Brigadier Julius Maada-Bio's military regimes which succeeded Momoh but did not support the 25 May 1997 coup against Kabbah by forces loyal to Maj...


Cracking Koroma

Bangura has worked variously as a university lecturer (at Freetown's Fourah Bay College) an Inquiry Chairman and as a diplomat – most recently at the United Nations for Captain Valentine Strasser's 1992-96 regime...


Putschists v. putschists

Koroma's junta had earlier called for the return of Musa who was a popular figure with a dynamic anti-corruption (some would say psychotic) image in the early years of Valentine Strasser' s 1992-1996 National Provisional Ruling Council military regime...


The coup-makers

He gained prominence as head of security for Valentine Strasser at Kabassa Lodge (official presidential residence) after Strasser's 1992 coup...


Rebel revival

Military sources believe little has changed since Captain Valentine Strasser's days when the government could rely on little more than half of its 16 000-strong force...


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