Usman Boie Kamara

Who is Usman Boie Kamara?

Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean politician, businessman and mining engineer. He is currently Sierra Leone Minister of Trade and Industry. He is a former director of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company.

In January 2013, Usman Boie Kamara was chosen by Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma to serve as Minister of Trade and Industry in his new second term cabinet. He was approved by the Sierra Leone House of Parliament on January 15, 2013 and was sworn in as Sierra Leone Minister of Trade and Industry on January 16, 2013 at State House in the capital Freetown.

Usman Boie Kamara unsuccessfully ran for the Sierra Leone People's Party presidential candidate in the 2012 Sierra Leone presidential election, he finished in second place behind former military ruler Julius Maada Bio who won the SLPP nomination at the party's convention held on July 31, 2011 at the miatta hall in Freetown.

After he lost the SLPP nomination to Julius Maada, Usman Boie Kamara defected from the SLPP in June 2012, and joined the ruling APC. He was officially welcome and given APC membership card by Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma himsef.

Usman Boie has a masters degree in mining engineering and Mineral Production Management from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.