Sierra Leone Heritage

The Making of the NPRC. Tom Nyuma's Role

For those who fought with him—in Liberia when he was among the first group of Sierra Leonean soldiers sent under ECOMOG in 1990, and then in Sierra Leone where he gained a name for himself for becoming, first, as a non-commissioned officer and later as a commissioned officer, one of the audacious and daring soldiers to fight the RUF rebels of Foday Sankoh. Tom Nyuma was a courageous and fearless soldier, perhaps one of the bravest and ingenuous in the recent, if not the entire, history of the Sierra Leone military.
The reputation of Tom Nyuma as a warrior was reinforced when he elected, after the 1992 coup which he masterminded as I will show shortly, to be a soldier at the war front rather than become a military bureaucrat in Freetown.

I never served in the military, but Tom Nyuma who I had known before he was a soldier, was always enamoured of military life. He was passionate about it, romanticized it, and liked its ruggedness, adventurism and machismo-ism...................... to be continued