DODOMA, Tanzania
President of Tanzania, Samia Hassan, has on Sunday September 12, made a mini-cabinet reshuffle kicking out three cabinet ministers and appointing former SADC Executive Secretary to her cabinet.
In the reshuffle, the immediate former
Executive Secretary of Southern African Development Community (Sadc), Stergomena Tax (pictured above) becomes Minister of Defense and National Service, two days after
she was appointed and sworn in as Member of Parliament.
She served as the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of East African
Cooperation from 2008 to 2013 when she was appointed as
the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development
Community at the 33rd Summit of the Heads of State and
Government in Lilongwe, Malawi.
She becomes first female ever to serve in
the sensitive position and replaces Elias Kwandikwa who died on August
2, this year while undergoing treatment in Dar es Salaam.
The reshuffle and new appointments were
announced through a statement issued by Director of Presidential Communication,
Jaffar Haniu.
In the changes that saw three former
cabinet ministers rebound to the cabinet includes appointment of Bumbuli Member
of Parliament, January Makamba as Minister for Energy replacing Medard Kalemani.
Prior to the latest appointment, Makamba
had served as Minister of State in the Vice President’s Office (Union and
Environmental Affairs), before his appointment was revoked by late President
John Magufuli.
Makame Mbarawa has been appointed to the
ministry of Works and Transportation replacing Leonard Chamuriho.
Mbarawa served
as the Minister of Communication, Science & Technology from 2010 to 2015, thereafter
served as the Minister of Water and Irrigation in the Magufuli administration
for eleven days before being transferred to head the infrastructure docket.
President Hassan also appointed Ashatu
Kijaji as Minister of Communication and Information Technology replacing Faustine
Ndugulile whose appointment has been revoked, she earlier served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Finance and
Planning.
In another development, the President has
also appointed the former Principal Judge of the High Court, Eliezer Feleshi,
as the new Attorney General, replacing Adelardus Kilangi who has been appointed
ambassador.
According to the statement, the new AG
and other new appointees will be sworn in on Monday, September 13, at State
House Chamwino, in the capital city of Dodoma. - Africa
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