By: Josephine Nyeweah in Kenema district
One of the candidates for the Small Bo chiefdom, the Kenema district Paramount chieftaincy election due on the 16th of March 2025, Mrs. Amy Miatta Myers Benya for the Benya ruling house, has on Thursday, 13th of February 2025, met with the PRESS and other stakeholders of the chiefdom at her Benya’s compound in Blama town.
The aim of the engagement is for her to continue calling on his people to continue supporting her for peace and development by voting for her on the polling day so that she can be the Margaret Thatcher of the Small-Bo Chiefdom, for the fact that she is a strong and formidable woman with an impressive resume.
She assured the press and her audience that if voted for as PC of the Small Bo chiefdom, she would continue the developmental strides for the chiefdom she had been embarking on even when her elder brother was alive, citing reference to the two secondary schools in Blama town, St. Joseph’s Agricultural Secondary School and Ahmadiyya Secondary School Blama, when she was working at the National Authorizing Office (NAO).
She pointed out that her elder brother, the late PC Mohamed Dhaffie Benya, never became averse to any development for the chiefdom, and therefore she would continue in the same line to maintain peace, unity, and development for the chiefdom in the interest of all and sundry.
She assured all that she would continue to hang heads with all her chiefs and stakeholders of the chiefdom for any future development initiatives for the chiefdom.
I wouldn’t work alone but always go along with my people to continue working for the rest of mankind.
Giving a brief biography of the candidate, the personal assistant (P.A.) to the candidate, Melvin Mansaray, disclosed that Mrs. Amy Miatta Myers Benya was born to the late P.C. Mohamed Foday Benya.
She was schooled at the Queen of the Rosary Secondary School, QRS, in Bo from Form 1 to 5, where she sat for her GCE O’ Levels.
She then moved on to the Sierra Leone Grammar School, where she completed her 6th form.
She proceeded to the Fourah Bay College, where she obtained her B.Sc. (Hons) in Geography.
Hons at FBC in those days was by invitation based on one outstanding performance.
Her quest to fully equip and capacitate herself and to lead development in this country and her chiefdom, to be specific, precipitated her to enroll at the prestigious Penn State University—USA, where she bagged her Master’s in Regional Planning (MRP).
She is a seasoned development expert in Sierra Leone and would harness that same expertise to initiate development in her chiefdom.
She worked briefly at the Economic Advisor’s office, then the National Authorizing Office, the Government Counterpart Office to the European Union office in Freetown, where she rose to the position of Director before retirement in 2019.
She is currently serving as Director of the Board of the Bank of Sierra Leone.
She married with two children. A male by the name of Mr. Dalton Myers, who is an accountant, and a female by the name of Sally Myers, who is a lawyer by profession.
