Abu Aiah Koroma Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Honorable
Abu Aiah Koroma
Nationality:Sierra Leonean
Honorific-Suffix:J.D.
Birth Date:26 November 1928
Birth Place:Kono District, British Sierra Leone
Death Place:Freetown, Sierra Leone
Children:4, including Sia Nyama Koroma
Term Start:September
Office2:Attorney General of Sierra Leone and minister of Justice
Term Start2:1967
Term End2:1971
Office3:Sierra Leone Minister of Mineral Resources
Term Start3:1990
Term End3:1992
Office4:Minister of Parliamentary and Political Affairs
Term Start4:1996
Term End4:2002
Profession:Lawyer, Attorney
Party:All People's Congress (APC)
Alma Mater:King's College, London University
Spouse:Danke Koroma
Office:Sierra Leone Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Termend:2002
Termstart:1998

Abu Aiah Koroma (26 November 1928 – 5 March 2005) was a lawyer and politician in Sierra Leone. Koroma began his political career as Attorney General in 1967 and 1968. He returned to government in 1976 when he became Managing Director of the National Diamond Mining Company until 1987. In 1991 and 1992, Koroma was the Minister of Mineral Resources. In 1996, he ran as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Centre Party and gained just 4.9% of the national vote in the initial round of voting. After Ahmed Tejan Kabbah won the presidency, Koroma was named Minister of Political and Parliamentary Affairs, which lasted until Kabbah's re-election in 2002. Koroma died in 2005, at the age of 76.