John Nicol Sahid Saad (born in

Bo, Sierra Leone Bo, also commonly referred to as Bo Town, is the second largest city in Sierra Leone by population (after Freetown) and the largest city in the Southern Province, Sierra Leone, Southern Province. Bo is the capital and administration (government), ...

) is a Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and

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. He is a member of the opposition

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(PMDC). He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a minister in the current government. Saad was the Chairman of the

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(SLPP) in

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, United Kingdom for over ten years, but he resigned from the SLPP in 2006 to join the PMDC. He was born in Bo to a Mende mother from Segbwema,

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and a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese father. He is only the second Sierra Leonean-Lebanese person to be elected to one of the top ministerial positions in the national government of Sierra Leone.

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