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  Turay, Edward
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NameEdward Turay
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Born October 24, 1945 (78 years)
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InfoMr. Edward M. Turay is Secretary General and Parliamentary leader of the All People's Congress Party - the APC. Prior to that, Mr. Turay was Crown Counsel in Jamaica and Senior Magistrate in Sierra Leone.

Mr. Turay obtained a BA(Hons.) Law from the University of Manchester in England and BL from the INNS of Court School of Law in London, England. He was called to the English Bar in 1976.

Between June 1976 and April 1979, Mr. Turay served as a Clerk of Courts and later Crown Counsel in Jamaica, West Indies. Between May 1979 and June 1982 Mr. Turay was Senior Magistrate in Sierra Leone.

Between July 1982 and June 1986, Mr. Turay was a Member of Parliament and served as Parliamentary member in the Constitutional Review Commission that drafted the 1991 Sierra Leone Constitution.

Between May 1992 and February 1996, Mr. Turay was again in private legal practice.

In February 1996, Mr. Turay was the parliamentary and presidential candidate during the 1996 Parliamentary and Presidential elections and won a seat in parliament. In parliament, Mr. Turay was Chairman of the Defense and Presidential Affairs Committee, and a member of the Appropriations Committee (March 1996-May 1997).

Mr. Turay was born on October 24, 1945. He is married and has six children.


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