Edward Turay
| Edward Mohamed Turay | |
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| Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
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Assumed office March 12, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Sulaiman Tejan-Jalloh |
Edward Mohamed Turay is a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. He was leader of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) from 1996 to 2002. He has been Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom since 2010.
Turay is from the Temne tribe of northern Sierra Leone. He is by profession a barrister, having studied Law at Manchester University, and been called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1976. Returning to Sierra Leone in 1979, he was a magistrate for three years before engaging in politics in 1982. He is the founder and consultant of Eddie Turay & Associates, a leading law firm in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
In 1986 Turay won a seat as a Member of Parliament for Bombali Central one Constituency. He was re-elected to parliament from Bombali District's Constituency 33 in the August 2007 parliamentary election, receiving 73.2% of the vote.
He was leader of the All People's Congress (APC) from 1996 until 2002. He contested the 1996 national election for president, but lost the election after gaining just 5.1% of the first round of voting, good enough for fifth place. He was then Minority Leader of the House of Parliament from 1996 to 2002. Ernest Bai Koroma since took over as parliamentary leader and presidential candidate of the APC, beginning in 2002. On September 25, 2007, when the members of parliament were sworn in, Turay was appointed as leader of the Majority Party, in which position he was also Leader of Government Business.
In January 2010, Turay was appointed Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, accredited to eight other states: Cyprus, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Greece.
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