Musa Khalil Suma, former Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board (SLPMB) boss and former SLPP heavyweight and businessman has died in his native Kambia district this morning according to very reliable sources.
Suma, a household name in Sierra Leone because of his prowess in business and politics (he was a very powerful APC politician before joining the ruling SLPP) hailed from Samu in the Kambia district.He was a very brilliant London-trained Economist.
According to Maryland-based Economist Mohamed A. Jalloh, the late Suma held a Masters of Economics degree from the prestigious London School of Economics in London, England and became Managing Director of SLPMB, a marketing board responsible for the purchase of cocoa, coffee, palm kernels, ginger, from local farmers for export, and one of the leading foreign exchange earners in SL, at the age of 35.
Jalloh, popularly known as Mohm J,was a former head of the Economic Planning Department at SLPMB and worked with Mr. Suma from 1978 until Suma retired in 1983.
In a brief tribute to the late Suma sent to the Vanguard this morning, Jalloh wrote:
"At the time of his appointment as Managing Director of SLPMB, Mr. Suma was a senior staff member at the Research Department of the Bank of Sierra Leone. He was also a part-time lecturer in the Economics Department at Fourah Bay College, University of SL, in Freetown. By the time he retired from SLPMB in 1983, to go into private business, Mr. Suma had transformed SLPMB, which was wholly-owned by the government of Sierra Leone, into one of the best run companies in the country."
The late Musa Suma is survived by his wife, Ramatu (nee Hassan), and several children.
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