Andrew Chenge Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Honourable
Andrew Chenge
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office:Minister of Infrastructure Development
Term Start:2006
Term End:2008
President:Jakaya Kikwete
Successor:Shukuru Kawambwa
Order2:1st
Office2:Minister of East African Cooperation
Term Start2:6 January 2006
Term End2:16 October 2006
Successor2:Ibrahim Msabaha
Office3:Member of Parliament
for Bariadi West
Term Start3:December 2005
Term End3:June 2020
Predecessor3:Isaac Cheyo
Successor3:Kundo Mathew
Order4:5th
Office4:Attorney General of Tanzania
Term Start4:1993
Term End4:2005
Predecessor4:Damian Lubuva
Successor4:Johnson Mwanyika
Birth Date:24 December 1947
Birth Place:Tanganyika
Nationality:Tanzanian
Party:CCM

Andrew John Chenge (born 24 December 1947) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Former Member of Parliament for Bariadi West constituency from 2005 to 2020.[1]

Background

After serving as Attorney-General, he was appointed as Minister of East African Affairs in the Cabinet named on January 4, 2006.[2] He was then appointed as Minister of Infrastructure on October 15, 2006,[3] retaining that post in the Cabinet named on February 12, 2008.[4] He resigned on 20 April 2008 after it was revealed by UK's Serious Fraud Office that he holds US$ 1million (over 1 billion Tanzania shillings) in an overseas offshore account, allegedly as kickbacks from a controversial military radar deal between UK's BAE Systems and Tanzania government which he partly oversaw while serving as Attorney-General. However, an investigation by Tanzania's Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau concluded that Chenge was not related to the radar scam. [5] [6]

In 2009, Andrew Chenge was involved in an accident in Dar es Salaam in which two women died. He was later convicted of dangerous driving and fined 700,000 Tsh.

He was reelected in November 2015 as a parliamentary representative for the Bariadi West Constituency. He has also been appointed as the presiding Chairman of Parliament as of January 2015.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Member of Parliament CV . 2010 . Parliament of Tanzania . 24 October 2013.
  2. Hassan Muhiddin, "JK's beefed up team", Guardian (IPP Media), January 5, 2006.
  3. http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2006/10/16/76527.html "Kikwete reshuffles Cabinet"
  4. http://www.parliament.go.tz/bunge/docs/cabinets.pdf List of Cabinet ministers (as of February 12, 2008)
  5. http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=31033 "Not yet free"
  6. http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/news/4-national-news/13042-pccb-probes-chenge-over-wealth-property "PCCB probes Chenge over wealth property"
  7. News: Three lawmakers chosen to help Speaker . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128094514/http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/46412-three-lawmakers-chosen-to-help-speaker . 2016-01-28 . Daily News . Tanzania.