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The NRC was a group of senior military officers who took power in 1967 removing Siaka Stevens from the office of prime minister and ruled the nation from 1967 to 1968. The NRC was overthrown in April 1968 by a group of military officers who reinstated Stevens as Prime Minister.
Corruption and mismanagement had run rampant, both under Momoh [2] and his predecessor, Siaka Stevens. [3] In March 1991, the country was plunged into the Sierra Leone Civil War, pitting the government against the invading Revolutionary United Front, under the command of Foday Sankoh. [3]
Francis Misheck Minah (19 August 1929 – 1989) was a Sierra Leonean statesman, lawyer and politician who served as First Vice President of Sierra Leone from 1985 to 1987 under President Siaka Stevens. [1]
Erica Powell OBE (15 March, 1921 – 5 June, 2007) was a British Private Secretary to Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana and later to Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone. She was a controversial figure, who was suspected by the British and by Ghanaians of lack of loyalty, and to have been too close to Nkrumah.
Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith (30 November 1931 [1] – 1996) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer in of Creole descent. Between 27 March 1967 and 18 April 1968, he was Chairman of the National Reformation Council and acting Governor-General, equivalent to head of the Sierra Leonean state.
He is the son of Sierra Leone's first president Siaka Stevens. [1] [2] In October 2007, Bockarie Stevens was appointed as Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the United States by Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma. Bockarie Stevens is a prominent member of the All People's Congress (APC) political party.
Michael Barratt, who would later adopt the stage name "Shakin' Stevens", was the youngest of 11 children born in Cardiff to Jack and May Barratt. [4] His father was a First World War veteran who by 1948 was working in the building trade, having previously worked as a coal miner.
Rebecca Stevens served as First Lady of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 to 28 November 1985. [1] She was the wife of Siaka Stevens , the 1st President of Sierra Leone . [ 1 ]