Religion Christianity | Nationality Sierra Leonean Preceded by Shirly Gbujama Name Soccoh Kabia | |
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Soccoh Kabia is a Sierra Leonean consultant physician and nephrologist and politician who serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Social Welfare and Children's Affairs. He is currently the only member of the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) political party in the current cabinet of Ernest Bai Koroma.
He is the son of one of the most famous women leaders in the history of Sierra Leone, Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama, an ethnic Mende from Moyamba District and Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II, an ethnic Temne from Lunsar, Port Loko District.
Kabia attended medical school in the United States. He spent over thirty years as a medical doctor in the United States.
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