Board of Directors
The NMA is headed by a Board of Directors, which is the governing body of the Agency and is responsible for overseeing key operational activities, including: approving operational budgets for the NMA, establishing strategic direction, ensuring organisational effectiveness, setting standards and assessing performance, approving operational policies and implementing and overseeing effective human resource management.
The NMA Board comprises a Chairman, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources; the Financial Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, and four independent members nominated by the Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources and appointed by the President. The Director General of the NMA serves as the Board Secretary.
Alhaji Mustapha Bamorie Turay - CHAIRMAN
Alhaji Mustapha Bamorie Turay is by far Sierra Leone’s leading rough diamond evaluation expert, with over 46 years’ experience in the diamond industry. His career spans both the public and private sectors in the industry, and he is currently the West Africa Director and Senior Valuer for Diamond Counsellor International (DCi). From 1995 to 1998 he was the General Manager of the then Government Gold and Diamond Office (GGDO), and from 2003 to the present he has been DCI’s Director and Senior Representative Consultant and Independent Diamond Valuer (IDV) for Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
Alhaji Turay has worked as a Diamond Valuer in Angola, 2001; Guinea 1997-2002; and Liberia 2004-2006. He was also on the team of Diamond Valuers at De Beers office in London that monitored and controlled the sale of Angolan diamonds to De Beers in 2000/2001. He was a co-leader of the Liberian delegation to Canada in 2005, where they successfully advocated for Liberia to join the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS).
Musa Mewa, Esq. - MEMBER
Musa Mewa is a Barrister and Solicitor, and Managing Partner Brewah & Co., Solicitors. He has vast experience in Civil and Criminal litigation.
He has recently been appointed Consultant Senior State Counsel at the Justice William Annan Atuguba Commission to represent The State. He has conducted cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal in both Criminal and Civil matters. Musa Mewa, Esq. is one of few practitioners among his contemporaries to have appeared and made successful applications before the Supreme Court as Lead Counsel.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Politics (2006), a Postgraduate Diploma in Mass Communication (2007), Bachelor of Laws with Honours (2011), Barrister and Solicitor at Law (2012) and has just completed his Master of Arts at Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone writing on the Topic: “Media Reporting of War Crimes Trials and Civil Society Responses in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: A case Study of the AFRC Trials.”
Ing. Hadji Dabo (P.Eng.; M.Eng.; B.Eng.; SME) - SECRETARY
Ing. Hadji Dabo is a professional mining engineer who has over 35 years’ experience in the mining and minerals industry. He is currently a Director at Vericon Health Resources, LLC, Sugar Land, Texas, USA; a Managing Director at Gateway 2439 Engineering Consultancy Limited and a Director at SDS Engineering Associates Limited. Ing. Dabo holds a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada; a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) First Division degree in Mechanical Engineering from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He is a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in the United States, is a member of the Society of Mining and Exploration Engineers of the American Institution of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Engineers, U.S.A., and is a registered Engineer in Sierra Leone. Ing. Dabo had his secondary school education at the prestigious Government Secondary School in Bo (Bo School) where he graduated with a First Division School Certificate and proceeded to Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 1973.
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