- Hamisi Andrea Kigwangalla
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Hamisi Andrea Kigwangalla (also spelled Kigwangala, born August 7, 1975) is a Tanzanian politician, social justice activist, entrepreneur and academic. He is a young and new Member of Parliament [1] sitting in the Tanzanian National Assembly representing Nzega Constituency of the Tabora region. He was first elected in the national elections on October 31, 2010. His appointment by the national executive council to run for the post through the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) ticket was followed by a lot of criticism with critics claiming that he was appointed to contest for the post despite being the second runner up after Hussein Mohammed Bashe (the winner of the primary votes) who was not favoured on account of his citizenship being unclear, and the incumbent Lucas Lumambo Selelii (1st runner up in the primaries, because he was working for the Tanzanian first lady's charitable organisation, Wanawake na Maendeleo (WAMA), a rumour which he denies.[2][3]
Immediately after his nomination by the CCM's top congregation, he was also arrested by the immigration police on charges of being a non-citizen of Tanzania and this became a center issue in the Tanzanian media. He was however cleared two days later.[4] Despite the fact that he was cleared by the immigration officials, he still had to face stern objections from the opposition contestants.[5]
File:KigwangalaHamisi A. KigwangalaDespite criticism and allegations, Kigwangalla won the elections. He recently[when?] was featured in daily newspapers in Tanzania that he intends to table a motion in the National Assembly claiming that the Golden Pride Project, a gold mining project located in Nzega and owned by an Australian mining giant subsidiary company Resolute Tanzania Ltd is useless and has no benefits to people from Nzega and the country at large and that should be closed.[6]
Kigwangalla was born and grew up in Nzega, he studied and graduated in Doctor of Medicine from the University of Dar es Salaam, and later obtained his Masters of Public Health from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.[7]
References
- ^ http://www.parliament.go.tz/bunge/electeds.php?pageNum_elected=2&totalRows_elected=343ref>
- ^ http://www.jamiiforums.com/jukwaa-la-siasa/70500-witch-hunting-on-opponents-vying-seats.html
- ^ http://www.mwanahalisi.co.tz/waliopita_waliobebwa_kura_za_maoni_ccm
- ^ http://www.mwananchi.co.tz/habari/4-habari-za-kitaifa/3939-uraia-wa-mrithi-wa-bashe-nao-matatani-akamatwa-na-uhamiaji-akidaiwa-ni-mrundi
- ^ http://www.jamiiforums.com/jukwaa-la-siasa/70500-witch-hunting-on-opponents-vying-seats.html
- ^ http://kigwangalla.blogspot.com/2010/12/dk-kigwangala-awakaba-resolute.html
- ^ http://kigwangalla.blogspot.com
- http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend//index.php?l=20096
- http://www.cottonafrica.com/members.php
- http://www.actifafrica.com/documents/members.pdf
- http://www.wavuti.com/4/post/2010/8/uraia-uraia-baada-ya-bashe-sasa-ni-hamisi-kigwangalla.html#axzz19ndwv572
- http://kigwangalla.blogspot.com/.../dk-kigwangala-awakaba-resolute.html
- http://kigwangalla.blogspot.com/2010/12/dk-kigwangala-awakaba-resolute.html
- http://www.mwananchi.co.tz/habari/4-habari-za-kitaifa/3939-uraia-wa-mrithi-wa-bashe-nao-matatani-akamatwa-na-uhamiaji-akidaiwa-ni-mrundi
seats.html
http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/sunday-citizen/40-sunday-citizen-news/3572-ccm-rejects-appeals-by-4-ministers.html http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend//index.php?l=20096 http://www.globalpublishers.info/profiles/blog/show?id=5398006:BlogPost:72117&commentId=5398006:Comment:72185&xg_source=activity http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend//index.php?l=20023
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- 1975 births
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