Lawrence Gama Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Honourable
Lawrence Gama
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office:Member of Parliament
for Songea Town
Term Start:October 1995
Term End:2005
Successor:Emmanuel Nchimbi
Office2:Secretary General Chama Cha Mapinduzi
Term Start2:1995
Term End2:1997
1Blankname2:Chairman
Predecessor2:Horace Kolimba
Successor2:Philip Mangula
Birth Date:19 January 1935
Birth Place:Tanganyika Territory
Restingplace:Songea
Nationality:Tanzanian
Party:Chama Cha Mapinduzi
Spouse:Siwajibu Salum Abdallah
Terezya Huvisa
Relations:Zainab Amir Gama
Children:John Gama, William Gama, Stephen Gama, Mussa Gama, Elisha Gama
Grand Children:John.W.Gama

Lawrence M. Gama (19 January 1935 – 16 December 2009) was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Songea constituency from 1995 to 2005. Prior to that, he was the Head of the National Service (Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa - JKT) from May 1970 - January 1973, Regional Commissioner for the Dodoma, Ruvuma, Tabora, and Morogoro Regions, and Head of the Special Branch (precursor to the present day Tanzania Intelligence and Security Services - TISS). [1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Member of Parliament CV . 2010 . . 8 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413144330/http://parliament.go.tz/index.php/members/mpcvs/1084/2000-2000 . 13 April 2014 . dead .