Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs Kanu, Esq. (Born 7 March 1954), Also Known as Kabs Kanu or Kabs, Is a Sierra Leonean American Christian Reverend, Journalist, and Newspaper Publisher. He Is a Former High School English Teacher, School Principal, and Lecturer of Educational Psychology. Between 2009 and 2018, He Served as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations and Coordinator of the African Union Committee of 10. He Worked Under the Presidency of Former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone.
Frequently Asked Questions
Early Life, Family and Education
According to a Cocorioko Newspaper Article, Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs Kanu Was Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. His Father Is the Late Pa Lamina Kanu of the Loko People from Gbendembu, Sierra Leone and His Mother, the Late Mammie Yaebu Kanu, Also a Loko from the Same Chiefdom, Was a Stay at Home Mom Who Raised Seven Children. He Has Celebrated 40 Year's of Marriage with Mrs. Tigidankay B. Kanu, a Director of Nursing (Long-Term Care Facility), Who Is Also a Pastor and Co-Founder of Covenant Child World Ministry, Their Church in Somerset, New Jersey, the United States. They Have Four Children Together and Kabs Kanu Also Has a Daughter from a Previous Relationship.
Cocorioko Newspaper, 1973–1976
University of Sierra Leone Alumni Students Including He Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma Had Acknowledged That Cocorioko Newspaper Was First Published in 1973 When Kabs Kanu Was a Student at the University. Some Sierra Leonean Newspaper Publishers Had Also Said That the First Newspaper Started with a Revolutionary Student’s Union Government Which Was Led by One Boubacar Njai-Bahled, an Influential Student at the Campus. Others Have Affirmed That Kabs Was the Minister of Propaganda in That Student’s Government. to Them, Ccocorioko Newspaper Was the Voice of That Student’s Union When They Were Involved in What They Described as a “Battle of Wits and Supremacy with the College Administration and Political Powers in the Country. ”
Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute
After Graduating from the University of Sierra Leone, Kabs Kanu Became a High School Teacher and a School Principal at the United Muslim Association Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He Was Also a Teacher at “Technical School” at Congo Cross, Freetown and Wrote for the Tablet Newspaper, an Established Publication in the Country at That Time.
Cocorioko Newspaper, 2002–2007
Between 1990 and 1995, Kabs Kanu Took the Clinical Pastoral Training Course at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s Pastoral Education Department Where He Qualified as a Clinical Pastor Who Ministers to and Counsels Patients. He Then Served as “Cpe Chaplain” at the Hospital, for Two Year's, Under the Directorship of the Late Dr. John De Velder. He Was Featured Editor of “The West African Journal” Between 1995 and 1998 and “Expo Times” Between 2000 and 2003.
Cocorioko Newspaper, 2007–2018
Some Sierra Leoneans Believe That the Diligent Reporting on Cocorioko Newspaper Contributed to the Regime Change That Took Place During Sierra Leone’s 2007 General Elections. Others Gather That an Overwhelming Number of People Voted for Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and His All People’s Congress Party (A. P. C.) During the Democratic Presidential and Legislative Elections Since They Believed Cocorioko Newspaper’s Widely Broadcast Reports That the Sierra Leone People’s Party (S. L. P. P.) Government of the Late President He Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah Was Inefficient and Corrupt.
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone at the United Nations
In 2009, the President of Sierra Leone, He Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma Appointed Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu as His Minister Plenipotentiary to the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone at the United Nations in New York, Usa. He Also Appointed Him as the Coordinator of the Africa Union Committee of 10. Kabs Kanu Received His Appointment Letter from Sierra Leone Foreign Ministry, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. in His New Capacity as Minister Plenipotentiary, He Inherited Some Socio-Economic and Political Problems and Worked Diligently to Change Those Conditions. He Represented President Ernest Koroma in the Un Security Council and Co-Chaired the African Union Committee of 10 ( C-10), Which Has the Primary Responsibility to Canvass Support for the African Common Position, as Encapsulated in the Elzuwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration.
