Ruler · 1937 – 2003

Joseph Saidu Momoh

Lived 1937 – 2003; politician, military personnel. President of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), 1985 – 1992.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1937 – 2003; 66 years
In office: 7 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Sierra Leone
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone · the 2nd of 8 dated reigns · 1971 – 2018

Siaka Stevens1971 – 1985

Joseph Saidu Momoh1985 – 1992

Valentine Strasser1992 – 1996

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah1996 – 1997

Johnny Paul Koroma1997 – 1998

3 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1985 – 1992 · 7 years · came to it aged 48

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: deposed

Despite this, he was overthrown in a coup d'état the following year led by Valentine Strasser, who cited his government's unpaid salaries and poor logistical supply to frontline soldiers fighting against the RUF as motives.

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