Early Life and Family
Sidiq Koya was born in Ba District in a prominent Malayalam Muslim family.He only went to year six in primary school and never saw the doors of a high school.Being a son of a cane farmer he worked his way up and later worked for the law firm of S.B. Patel in Lautoka. He then travelled to Tasmania to obtain his law degree from the University of Tasmania.He and his wife Amina, had three children, daughter Shahnaaz and sons Faiyaz and Faizal and six grandchildren, Aleisha, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Zane, Akif and Farhaan who now reside in Australia, Canada and Fiji.
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