Background
Khoka was born in a Muslim family. His father was an engineer and a social worker
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Sadeque Hossain Khoka
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Khoka attended Dhaka University and completed Master of Arts
Career
He served as the 2nd mayor of Dhaka City Corporation during 2002 to 2011. He was the vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. In Psychology. In 1971 at the age of 19 he fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
After independence, he worked in organizing soccer, ultimately rising to the positions of General Secretary of the Dhaka Metropolitan Football Association and Joint General Secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation.
Khoka is the key person of the football club Brothers Union. Khoka was first elected to the Jatiyo Sangshad (national legislature) in 1991.
In the same year he was made State Minister of Youth and Sports. After Bangladesh Nationalist Party"s victory in 2001, Khoka was made Cabinet Minister of Fisheries and Livestock.
He took office as the Mayor of Dhaka on April 25, 2002.
He served as both Minister and Mayor till 2004 when he resigned from the ministry. Khoka resigned from the mayoral duties of Dhaka on November 29, 2011, when the government passed a bill in parliament to split DCC (Dhaka City Corporation) into two parts and renamed them DCC North and DCC South. Both of them pursued Master of Business Administration degree from University of Durham.
