over two decades ago, he was confronted with an array of questions to answer about the path to lead in the world of science – after a stellar Senior Secondary School education achievements at national level.
Initially, he gained admission to the second pre-med level at the College of Medicine and Allied Sciences to study for a medical degree. Alas, the circumstances at the time were not favourable owing to affordability. Timothy Kabba therefore declined the offer.
He was a victim of the real issue of post war reconstruction, with a nation lying in ruins and darkness – after a dastardly atrocious civil conflict. He applied for a degree in Engineering at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone to be part of the reconstruction of a country which destruction he saw at first hand as a child conscript during the war.
‘’My dream of becoming a civil engineer was cut short by an opportunity to study Petroleum Engineering abroad. I built a close to a decade career in the Oil & Gas industry that traversed my Offshore Petroleum Exploration experience in Europe, the Middle East, and West Africa,’’ Timothy recalled.
According to him, the first term of President Bio’s administration (2018 -2023), he served in roles that transformed his engineering career from crunching data and designing wells, instructing drilling programs to policy making in the oil & gas (DG Petroleum) and mining sectors as Minister of Mines in Sierra Leone.
Today, in a world of mercantilist foreign policy, Timothy Kabba has been accorded the greatest privilege to serve as Sierra Leone’s diplomatic agent – a vantage that combines his technical expertise in resource governance with unrelenting determination in diplomacy to preserve and protect our country’s interests.
At this year’s Biennial Conference of the Sierra Leone Institute of Engineers, he has been accorded the privilege to address his colleague engineers as the keynote speaker.
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