Sheriff S. Sisay

Sheriff Saikouba Sisay GORG (* 1935 in Niamina , Gambia , † March 4, 1989 in London ) was a Gambian politician of the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) , who was finance minister between 1962 and 1967 , foreign minister from 1967 to 1968 and most recently was Minister of Finance and Trade between 1982 and his death in 1989.

Life

Sheriff Saikouba Sisay was a graduate of the Armitage High School, named after Governor Cecil Hamilton Armitage , along with Sheriff Dibba and other later leading politicians . He was at the parliamentary elections in British Gambia in 1960 as a candidate of the Progressive People's Party PPP ( People's Progressive Party ) in the constituency Niamina with 3094 votes (68.07 percent) for the first time a member of the House of Representatives ( House of Representatives ) elected. In the following parliamentary elections in British Gambia in 1962 he was re-elected for the PPP in the constituency of Niamina and this time won 2,787 votes (76.11 percent). Subsequently, in June 1962, he was appointed by Prime Minister Dawda Jawara to his first cabinet , where he held the post of finance minister until he was replaced by Sheriff Dibba in December 1967 . As such, he was one of the signatories of the Gambia Independence Act 1964 , which came into force on December 17, 1964 and with which the preparations for the complete independence of the Gambia and admission to the Commonwealth of Nations were made.

In the parliamentary elections in Gambia on May 26, 1966 , Sisay was re-elected to the House of Representatives in the constituency of Niamina with 4,164 votes (70.95 percent) . He then took over the post of Foreign Minister in December 1967 as part of a cabinet reshuffle from Alieu Badara N'Jie , which he held until his replacement by Assan Musa Camara as part of a further cabinet reshuffle in January 1968. On September 1, 1968, he was expelled from the PPP along with three other members of the government ( Paul L. Baldeh , Yusupha S. Samba and KCA Kah ). In October 1968 he founded the People's Progressive Alliance ( PPA ) together with Baldeh, Samba and Kah . After Baldeh's death and Kah's re-entry into the PPP, Samba and Sisay also held talks with Jawara in 1970 talks with Prime Minister Jawara. In December 1971, he and Samba rejoined the PPP.

In May 1982, Sheriff S. Sisay succeeded Saihou S. Sabally in the newly formed Jawara V cabinet as Minister of Finance and Trade and also held this ministerial office in the Jawara VI cabinet formed on March 11, 1987 until his death on May 4 March 1989, whereupon Saihou S. Sabally took his place again.

family

The lawyer and politician Hawa Sisay-Sabally is the daughter of Sheriff S. Sisay.

Awards and honors

• Year not known: Grand Officer of the Order of the Republic of The Gambia (GORG)

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gambia: Foreign Ministers
2. ↑ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia , S. XLI, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
3. ^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia , p. 378, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
4. ^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia , p. 368, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
5. ^ Perfect, David, 1960-: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifthition edition. Lanham, Maryland 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 , pp. 400 .
6. ↑ [1]

See also

• List of Members of the Gambian Parliament (1960–1962)
• List of Members of the Gambian Parliament (1962–1966)
• List of Members of the Gambian Parliament (1966–1972)