Patrick Conteh
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Patrick Conteh was a Sierra Leonian military leader and politician.[1]
In 1968, together with John Amadu Bangura, he participated in the Sergeants' Coup. Conteh took over with his Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement (ACRM) on 18 April 1968 as chairman of the National Interim Council and ended a long period of coups.[2] He sat himself as Prime Minister on the 19 April and handed over power on 22 April 1968, when a civilian government under Banja Tejan-Sie as Governor General and Siaka Probyn Stevens as Prime Minister was established.[3]
