Andrew Juxon-Smith

Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer of Creole descent. Between 27 March 1967 and 18 April 1968, he was Chairman of the National Reformation Council and acting Governor-General, equivalent to head of the Sierra Leonean state. He was additionally Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone. He and the Council were overthrown in April 1968 by a group of low-level military officials led by John Amadu Bangura that restored Sierra Leone to rule by parliament under Siaka Stevens. He later moved to the United States and died in Stapleton, New York.
Juxon-Smith's life is the subject of the short documentary A Forgotten Past, directed by Andreas Hadjipateras in 2018.

Policies

Juxon-Smith fought against tribalism during his rule. he implemented an austere IMF reform package and set up commissions of inquiry. He pursued economic policies of austerity and budgetary. He also raised taxes and import duties, closed down inefficient state plantations, fired the most venal politicians and turned the economy over to professional administrators. His policies brought considerable unemployment. He has declared war on corruption and promised to transform an economy brought to near-bankruptcy by Albert Margai's free-wheeling deficit spending. His short rule was seen as nepotist and also as authoritarian.