Education
University of Dar es Salaam. University of Missouri. Vanderbilt University.
University of Dar es Salaam. University of Missouri. Vanderbilt University.
He served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 1996 to 1997, as Minister of Energy and Minerals from 1997 to 2000, as Minister of State in the President" General’ s Office for Planning and Privatisation from 2000 to 2005, and again as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2012 to 2015. He died on 12 October 2015 whilst undergoing treatment in India.
He overwhelmingly won the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) nomination for Handeni constituency prior to the 2005 parliamentary election, receiving 1,216 votes while the nearest of his four opponents for the nomination received 94.
