Alhaji Moijueh Emmanuel Kaikai is a

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and the Sierra Leone Minister of

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, Gender and Children's Affairs since 2013. He had previously served as the resident Minister of the Southern Province, and Deputy Minister of Labour. KaiKai was one of the founding members of the

People's Movement for Democratic Change The People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) is a liberal party in Sierra Leone. It is a breakaway faction of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). It was officially registered on 19 January 2006. The party is led by Charles Margai, the ...

(PMDC)

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in 2005, a breakaway faction of the

Sierra Leone People's Party The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with its main political rival the All People's Congress (APC). It has been the ruling party in Sierra Leone since April 4, 2018. The SLPP do ...

(SLPP). He later switched to the

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(APC). Moijueh KaiKai is native of

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in Southern Sierra Leone. He is a devout

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and a member of the Mende

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Early life and political career

Moijeh Kaikai was born and raised in

in the Southern Province of

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

to ethnic Mende parents. KaiKai was one of the founding members of the

(PMDC) polital party led by

Charles Margai Charles Francis Kondo Margai (born 19 August 1945) is a Sierra Leonean politician and lawyer, constitutional lawyer who served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone in 2018. Margai is a former candidate for the office of Pr ...

in 2005, a breakaway faction of the

(SLPP). He later switched to the

(APC). KaiKai served as Sierra Leone Deputy Minister Labour and Employment from February 27, 2009, to December 3, 2010, in the government of Sierra Leone's President

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. He was moved to Resident Minister of the Southern Province from December 3, 2010, to January 4, 2013. He was appointed Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs On January 4, 2013, by Sierra Leone's president,

References

External links

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Living people All People's Congress politicians Sierra Leonean Muslims Mende people People from Pujehun District Year of birth missing (living people) {{SierraLeone-politician-stub