Santigie Borbor Kanu (also known as Five-Five) (born March 1965) was a Sierra Leonean military commander in the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
He was one of a group of seventeen soldiers in the military of Sierra Leone who successfully staged a coup that ousted president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997.
Kanu was born either in Freetown or in the Maforki Chiefdom in the Port Loko District of Sierra Leone.
[1] In this capacity, he served as the commander of the AFRC and Revolutionary United Front forces that attacked civilians in the north, east, and centre of Sierra Leone in 1998 and in Freetown in January 1999.
[3] On 19 July 2007, Kanu was sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment,[2][4] which he is serving at Mpanga prison in Rwanda.