Ibrahim Rassin Bundu | |
Nationality: | Sierra Leonean |
Order: | Majority Leader of the Sierra Leone Parliament |
Term Start: | January 21, 2014 |
Predecessor: | Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya |
Office1: | Deputy Majority Leader of Sierra Leone Parliament |
Term Start1: | 2007 |
Term End1: | 2014 |
Office2: | Member of Sierra Leone Parliament from Port Loko District |
Term Start2: | 2002 |
Term End2: | present |
Birth Place: | Gbinti, Dibia chiefdom, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone |
Party: | All People's Congress (APC) |
Residence: | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
Alma Mater: | Fourah Bay College |
Ibrahim Rassin Bundu is a Sierra Leonean politician and the current majority leader of the Sierra Leone Parliament. Bundu was previously the minority whip and deputy majority leader of parliament. He is a prominent and senior member of the All People's Congress (APC) party.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Ibrahim Bundu is the younger brother of Sierra Leonean economist and one of the country's most famous politicians Abass Bundu, who is a member of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party.[5]
Ibrahim Bundu was first elected to parliament during 2002 Parliamentary elections, and has been re-elected twice in 2007 and 2012 by a large margins.[6] Bundu represents Constituency fifty one that comprises Dibia chiefdom, in Port Loko District in the Sierra Leone House of Parliament.
Bundu is a native of Gbinti, Port Loko District in Northern Sierra Leone; and a member of the Fula ethnic group. He is a close ally of Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma.