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).
Alhaji Turay is an active member of several Professional Societies, including the International Gemological Institute (IGI), the European Gem Laboratory (EGL), the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), the Irish Management Institute (IGI), and he has participated in several courses, workshops, seminars and conferences on diamond matters within and outside Sierra Leone.
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.”
As Deputy Director (2015-2016) and later Acting Executive Director (2016-2018) Timap For Justice (TFJ), he exhibited competent administrative skills outside his normal practice as a legal practitioner by not only conducting cases for the Human Rights Organization, but also administered the organization with consummate rectitude. He has penetrating skills in handling corporate matters and proffering legal advice to corporate clients.
He lectures Law of Contract at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, Njala University Bo Campus.
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.
After graduating from Fourah Bay College in 1977, Ing. Dabo worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MANR) as a Mechanical Engineer in the Ministry’s Mechanical Cultivation Unit. During this same period, he served as a part-time Assistant Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Fourah Bay College. Ing. Dabo later left the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and joined Sierra Rutile Limited in 1979 as a Plant Supervisor, but soon after that, he won a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake graduate studies, first in Agricultural Engineering, and then Mining Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Following the completion of his studies in Canada, Ing. Dabo promptly returned to Sierra Leone in 1982 and again joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources for a brief period before moving on again to Sierra Rutile Limited. At Sierra Rutile Limited, Ing. Dabo served in various supervisory and management roles including those of Engineer-in-Charge of plants, Mine Planning Engineer, Chief Mine Planning Engineer, Mine Site Manager – during the war years for both Sierra Mineral Holding Limited (SMHL) and Sierra Rutile Limited (SRL), Community Development and Relations Manager – for both SMHL (Bauxite) and Sierra Rutile Limited, Production Coordinator, and Technical Services Manager. Ing. Dabo also undertook several technical, training and development courses including Geostatistics at Leeds University, U.K.; CAD/CAM & 3-D Mine Modelling at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, U.K.; Datamine Mine Modelling in Perth, Australia; Inventory and Procurement Information Review in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; and RGC Mineral Sands Operations tour in Perth, Eneabba, and Geraldton in Western Australia. Ing. Dabo retired from Sierra Rutile Limited in December 2014 and continues to provide mining consultancy services to the industry. Ing. Hadji Dabo is married with 4 children and his hobbies include playing Tennis and Badminton; and has interest in current affairs; engagement in community services and alumni associations activities.
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