Tanzania President kicked out her Chief Secretary after one-month in office

DODOMA, Tanzania

President of Tanzania, Samia Hassan has on Wednesday March 31, done away with her Chief Secretary, Bashiru Ally, who held the position for only one month.

The change was made in a cabinet reshuffle, replacing the former ruling party (CCM) Secretary General by Tanzania’s ambassador to Japan Hussein Kattanga.

Ally who has been nominated as a Member of Parliament today by President Hassan, was appointed as Chief Secretary by former Tanzania President the late John Magufuli a month ago.

The reshuffle announced today at State House, has seen some new faces with the most notable being the nomination of Liberata Mulamula as  Member of Parliament and then as Foreign Affairs and East Africa Cooperation  Minister  replacing Palamagamba Kabudi who now takes over the ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.

Mwigulu Nchemba who was the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs now becomes the Minister of Finance and Planning, a docket left vaccant yesterday following appointment of Phillip Mpango as the new Vice President.

Ummy Mwalimu now becomes the Minister in the President's office Regional Administration and Local Government replacing Selemani Jafo who now serves the Ministry of State in the Vice Presidents Office.

In her remarks, she said that there was no need to make complete reshuffle as most ministers were sworn recently after October 2020 election.

Bashiru Ally

"It has been a short while since you were sworn in so I did not see the need for a complete overhaul of the ministries," She said warning her appointees to embrace nothing but work.

President Hassan also warned ministers who hardly assign deputy ministers any tasks something that in the long run causes frictions with the ministry.

As part of her other instructions, she ordered the newly created ministry of investment under the stewardship of Godfrey Mwambe and his deputy Ole Nasha gets functional as soon as possible.

In the other development, President Samia Hassan presided over the swearing in of Philip Mpango as Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania.

On Tuesday, all 363 Members of Parliament gave their approval for Mpango (63), to become Tanzania’s next Vice President, after President Samia Suluhu presented his name as a nominee for the position to parliament.