John Nicol Sahid Saad is a Sierra Leonean politician

Politics of Sierra Leone

Government of Sierra Leone is the governing authority of the Republic of Sierra Leone, as established by the Sierra Leone Constitution. The Sierra Leone government is divided into three branches: the Executive Legislative and the Judiciary...

, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development

Land improvement

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. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change

People's Movement for Democratic Change

The People's Movement for Democratic Change is a liberal party in Sierra Leone. It is a breakaway faction of the Sierra Leone People's Party . It was officially registered on 19 January 2006...

 (PMDC). He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a minister in the current government. Saad was the Chairman of the Sierra Leone People's Party

Sierra Leone People's Party

Sierra Leone People's Party is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with the All People's Congress .-Formation:...

 (SLPP) in London

London

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 for over ten years, but he resigned from the SLPP in 2006 to join the PMDC. He was born in Bo to a Mende

Mende people

The Mende people are one of the two largest and most dominant ethnic group in Sierra Leone, along with the Temne. The Mende make up 30% of Sierra Leone's total population or 1,932,015 members...

 mother from Segbwema

Segbwema

Segbwema is a major agricultural center of Sierra Leone, with a population of 7,961 . It is the largest town in Kailahun District after the capital ; and the fourth largest in the Eastern Province...

, Kailahun District

Kailahun District

Kailahun District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Kailahun. The other major towns in the district include Segbwema, Koindu, Pendembu and Daru. As of 2010, the district has a population of 395,957 ....

 and a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese

Sierra Leonean-Lebanese

-Migration history:Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ottoman Empire; the first Lebanese arrived in Sierra Leone in 1893. The first groups were Maronite Christians, but beginning in 1903, Shia Muslim...

father. He is only the second Sierra Leonean-Lebanese person to be elected to one of the top ministerial positions in the national government of Sierra Leone

External links

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