Sierra Leoneans had flocked to the country's largest mine after the election of Ernest Bai Koroma in September 2007.
Sierra Leone's President, Ernest Bai Koroma, was said to be "very sad" in the wake of the tragedy.
The Magburaka Government Secondary School for Boys has a history of producing some of Sierra Leone's most prominent people, including current Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma, minister of Education Minkailu Bah and writer, novelist and author Karamoh Kabba.
He is the Chief Accountant at the Petroleum Resources Unit {PRU} he was appointed by Ernest Bai Koroma.
He is the current Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Sierra Leone in the Ernest Bai Koroma Administration.
He had received the endosement of Sierra Leone President and APC leader, Ernest Bai Koroma, and the two have campaingn together in Segbwema.
Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Shackleton | Ernest Borgnine | Ernest Tubb | Ernest Rutherford | Ernest Renan | Bai Ling | Ernest Chausson | Ernest Bloch | Ernest Bevin | Ernest | Mamola Bai | Ernest George | Ernest Gruening | Ernest Dowson | Ernest Bai Koroma | Li Bai | Ernest Thompson Seton | Ernest Hollings | William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar | John Ernest | Ernest Thayer | Ernest Jones | Ernest Giles | Ernest Gellner | Ernest Fenollosa | Ernest Augustus I of Hanover | Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Reginald Ernest Moreau | Ernest Torrence |
Both Bai Koroma and SLPP candidate Solomon Berewa ran in the run-off election on 8 September, which Ernest Bai Koroma won with 54.62% of the run-off vote.