Soccoh Kabia is a Sierra Leonean  Consultant Physician and Nephrologist and politician who currently 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

People's Movement for Democratic Change

The People's Movement for Democratic Change is a liberal party in Sierra Leone. It is a breakaway faction of the Sierra Leone People's Party . It was officially registered on 19 January 2006...

 (PMDC) political party in the current cabinet of Ernest Bai Koroma

Ernest Bai Koroma

Ernest Bai Koroma is the fourth and current President of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in as President on 17 September 2007 at the State House in the capital Freetown, shortly after being declared the winner of a tense run-off in the 2007 Sierra Leone presidential election with 54.6% of the vote over...

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He is the son of one of the most famous women leader's in the history of Sierra Leone, Paramount Chief

Paramount chief

A paramount chief is the highest-level traditional chief or political leader in a regional or local polity or country typically administered politically with a chief-based system. This definition is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple...

 Madam Ella Koblo Gulama

Ella Koblo Gulama

style="float:right;"|Ella Koblo Gulama was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. In 1957, she became the first elected female Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone and all of sub-Saharan Africa. She was re-elected in 1962...

, an ethnic Mende

Mende people

The Mende people are one of the two largest and most dominant ethnic group in Sierra Leone, along with the Temne. The Mende make up 30% of Sierra Leone's total population or 1,932,015 members...

 from Moyamba District

Moyamba District

Moyamba District is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone with a population of 260,910 in the 2004 census. Its capital and largest city is Moyamba. The other major towns include Njala, Rotifunk and Shenge...

 and Paramount Chief

Paramount chief

A paramount chief is the highest-level traditional chief or political leader in a regional or local polity or country typically administered politically with a chief-based system. This definition is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple...

 Bai Koblo Pathbana II

Bai Koblo Pathbana II

Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. He was married to Ella Koblo Gulama, a cross-tribal union marriage between an ethnic Temne and a Mende...

, an ethnic Temne from Lunsar

Lunsar

Lunsar is one of the largest cities of Port Loko District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. The population was 16,567 in the 2004 census , but a 2010 estimate is 23,889 . The town lies about 22 miles east of the district capital of Port Loko and 65 miles east of Freetown . The...

, Port Loko District

Port Loko District

Port Loko District is the most populous district in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone with a population of 489,488 Its capital is Port Loko and the largest city is Lunsar...

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Kabia attended medical school

Medical school

A medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine. Degree programs offered at medical schools often include Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Bachelor/Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, master's degree, or other post-secondary...

 in the United States

United States

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. He spent over thirty years as a medical doctor in the United States.

External links

• http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_41385.aspx