Innocent Lugha Bashungwa | |
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Ministry of Home Affairs | |
Assumed office 8 December 2024 | |
President | Samia Suluhu |
Preceded by | Mh. Hamad Yusuf Masauni |
Minister of Works | |
In office 1 September 2023 –8 December 2024 | |
President | Samia Suluhu |
Preceded by | Makame Mbarawa |
Succeeded by | Abdallah Hamis Ulega |
Minister of Defence and National Service | |
In office 3 October 2022 –31 August 2023 | |
President | Samia Suluhu |
Preceded by | Stergomena Tax |
Succeeded by | Stergomena Tax |
Minister of Information,Culture,Arts and Sports | |
In office 5 December 2020 –10 January 2022 | |
President | John Magufuli (2020) Samia Suluhu (2021) |
Preceded by | Harrison Mwakyembe |
Succeeded by | Mohamed Mchengerwa |
Minister of Industry and Trade for Tanzania | |
President | John Magufuli |
Preceded by | Joseph Kakunda |
Succeeded by | Geofrey Mwambe |
Member of Parliament for Karagwe District | |
Assumed office December 2015 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Karagwe | 5 March 1979
Nationality | Tanzanian |
Political party | Chama Cha Mapinduzi |
Spouse | Jennifer Bash |
Alma mater | St. John's University of Tanzania Columbia University Open University of Tanzania |
Innocent Lugha Bashungwa (born May 5,1979) is a Tanzanian politician who has served as the Minister of Works in Tanzania since 2023. He previously served as Minister of Information,Culture,Arts and Sports,Minister of Defence and a Minister of State in the President's Office (Regional Administration and Local Government) in Tanzania and is a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi political party. [1] He was elected MP representing Karagwe in 2015.
He was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture by President John Magufuli on 10 November 2018. On November 13,2018,he was sworn in as Deputy Minister. [2] In June 2019,Joseph Kakunda was replaced by Innocent Bashungwa as the minister of Industry,Trade and Investment,he went on to serve at this docket for a year before the parliament was dissolved on June 16,2020. [3]
In Magufuli's second cabinet,he was appointed as the Minister of Information,Culture,Artists and Sports. [4] Following the January 2022 reshuffle of the Suluhu Cabinet,he assumed the position of the Minister of State in the President's Office. [5]
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