Salia Jusu-Sheriff | |
Nationality: | Sierra Leonean |
Order: | Second Vice President of Sierra Leone |
Term Start: | 4 April 1987 |
Term End: | 1991 |
President: | Joseph Saidu Momoh |
Predecessor: | Abu Bakar Kamara |
Successor: | J. B. Dauda |
Birth Date: | 1929 6, df=y |
Birth Place: | Segbwema, Kailahun District, British Sierra Leone |
Death Place: | London, United Kingdom |
Party: | Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) |
Spouse: | Gladys Jusu-Sheriff |
Children: | Five children:
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Salia Jusu-Sheriff (1 June 1929 – 19 December 2009) was a Sierra Leonean politician who served as Vice President of Sierra Leone from 1987 to 1991. He was the leader of the SLPP party.
Jusu-Sheriff was born in 1929 in Freetown.[1] He was an economist and a lawyer. He was Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone from May 1982 to September 1984. Sierra Leone had two Vice Presidents, the First and Second, Jusu-Sheriff was the Second from 1987 to 1991. Jusu-Sheriff retired after Joseph Saidu Momoh was overthrown.
His and Gladys Jusu-Sheriff's daughter Yasmin Sheriff[2] has been an active campaigner in Sierra Leone, especially after 1991[3] when the Sierra Leone Civil War started.[4]
He died in London, UK on 19 December 2009.[5] [6] Gladys Jusu-Sheriff survived him and she became a trustee for refugee work in Islington.[7]