Kahota M.S. Dumbuya

Colonel Kahota M.S. Dumbuya commonly known as K.M.S. Dumbuya was a senior military officer in the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. K.M.S Dumbua was the late husband of the religious Sierra Leonean evangelist preacher Mammy Dumbuya.

When a group of junior military officers in the Sierra Leone Army led by Captain Valentine Strasser seized power in a military coup in April 1992 and overthrew then Sierra Leone's president Joseph Saidu Momoh, Colonel K.M.S. Dumbuya was among many senior military officers arrested, imprisoned and later executed in December 1992, when they were accused of plotting a coup to topple the military junta government.

While in the military, K.M.S. Dumbuya was a well-respected and admired soldier. He was known for professional legal defense of soldiers, as well as professional legal discipline of soldiers who break the military code of conduct.

A native of Kambia District in Northern Sierra Leone, K.M.S. Dumbuya enrolled at Sierra Leone's Fourah Bay College Law School, upon completion of secondary school. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Law at Fourah Bay College, and enlisted in the Sierra Leone Army as a cadet officer. As a soldier, He obtained his Master's degree in Law in military science in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He obtained yet another degree in Law at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, United Kingdom.