THE JOURNEY TO MY PATH

Hon. Timbo started his professional career as a national legal associate working with the defence office of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, immediately after he sat to his Bar Final exams. He proceeded from there to do his compulsory pupillage at the law firm of Shears – Moses & Co. under the tutelage of Emanuel Shears – Moses Esq. (late).

In 2010 he joined the Pilot National Legal Aid Scheme as a defence lawyer representing poor people who could not afford lawyers. By the close of the pilot scheme in 2012, they had represented over 5000 poor people and developed the Legal Aid Act, which gave birth to the Legal Aid Board for Sierra Leone.

Thereafter, he went back to private practice and worked with Solomon Jamiru & Co. solicitors, before they changed the name to J&T Solicitors. In 2014, he was appointed to serve in the executive arm of government as legal adviser in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Unit in the Office of the President; a position he held until his resignation on the 6th of March 2017.

During the same period, he also served as a board member of the National Privatisation Commission, representing the Sierra Bar Association. He was instrumental in the drafting and negotiations of several investment contracts, proffering legal opinion on project proposals and drafting of the Public Private Partnership Act 2014. In 2015, he was also briefly seconded to work with Herbert Smith – Freehills, a renown law firm in the UK, under the International Lawyers for Africa Program.

Ever since his resignation, he has been joggling between politics and private practice as a solicitor. In 2018, he established his law firm; ABT Law, in memory of his late father.

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“The more beautiful thing about my experiences is that I played more technical roles than leadership and decision making roles, thus giving me hands on experience on the challenges and opportunities for delivery.”

Hon. Osman Timbo

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