Makame Mbarawa | |
Term Start: | 1 September 2023 |
Predecessor: | Himself as Minister of Works & Transport |
Term Start1: | 12 September 2021 |
Term End1: | 31 August 2023 |
Successor1: | Innocent Bashungwa (Works) |
Order2: | 8th & 11th |
Office2: | Minister of Water and Irrigation |
Term Start2: | 1 July 2018 |
Term End2: | 16 June 2020 |
Successor2: | Jumaa Hamidu Aweso |
Term Start3: | 12 December 2015 |
Term End3: | 23 December 2015 |
Successor3: | Gerson Lwenge |
Office4: | Minister of Works, Transport and Communication |
Term Start4: | 23 December 2015 |
Term End4: | 1 July 2018 |
Successor4: | Isack Aloyce Kamwelwe |
Term Start5: | December 2010 |
Term End5: | 5 November 2015 |
1Blankname5: | Deputy |
Successor5: | Dr. Joyce Ndalichako (Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training) |
Term Start6: | November 2010 |
Constituency6: | None (Nominated MP) |
Birth Date: | 12 February 1961 |
Nationality: | Tanzanian |
Blank1: | Positions |
Professor Makame Mbarawa is a Tanzanian CCM politician and a nominated Member of Parliament.[1] [2] He is currently the Minister of Transport in Tanzania.
He served as the Minister of Communication, Science & Technology from 2010 to 2015. He thereafter served as the Minister of Water and Irrigation in the Magufuli administration for eleven days before being transferred to head the infrastructure docket. He continued as the Minister of Works and Transport once president Samia Suluhu Hassan took office in 2021. Following her reshuffle of the cabinet in September 2023, he retained his role over just the Minister of Transport as the ministry was split into two.[3]