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                               SHARDOW ABARRY ALI (1927 - 1998)

                                  (aka. BABAN MATA)                                

 

Alhaji Baban Mata was the fourth child of 

SULEIMAN ABARRY (Baa Danjo) and

HADIZA ANGULU SHARDOW (Nman Danjo).  

He was born in Accra on the 25th of January 1927.

 He attended Accra Royal School from 1935 to 1944

and Accra Academy from 1945 to 1947.

In 1947 he enlisted in the colonial Army which was

then known as The Royal West African Frontier Force

where he was assigned to the Army Pay Office under

the command of Lt-Col A.H. Jones.  

In 1950, having served for two years and three months, 

he took up an appoinment with the Comptroller and

Accountant-General's  Department. 

On attaining the rank of Assistant Accountant in 1961,

he was posted to the United Kingdom to setup a unit

to handle remittances for Ghanaian students  in the UK

on government scholarship.  He remained in the UK

until September 1967 when ......READ MORE

 

 

  

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                                       Alhaji Baban Mata had two wives and seven children.

                                        1st Wife: Hajia Fusena Mohammed

                                                            Children

                               1. Ossman (Jarman)    2. Haruna   3. Braimah (Beebi)    

                               4. Mashood    5. Zainabu     6. Mohammed Amin

 

                                          2nd Wife: Fatuma Efua Hayfron

                                                                    Child

                                                        1. Zaliatu (Auntie)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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