Her sister Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama was one of Sierra Leone's foremost stateswomen.

[2] When Siaka Stevens was pronounced the winner of the hotly contested 1967 Elections, Prime Minister Albert Margai refused to concede defeat.

[3] He announced that the election results void and declared martial law, and proclaimed himself the interim head of state.

[4] A series of coups and counter-coups ensued which ended with both her husband and her sister arrested and held at Pademba Road Prisons.

[2] In July 1975, her husband David Lansana and his colleague Dr. Sorie Fornah were executed for treason after the alleged coup plot trials.