Her Excellency, Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania has on Sunday September 12, made a mini-cabinet reshuffle appointing a new Attorney General. In the reshuffle, Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax becomes Minister of Defense and National Service, two days after she was sworn in as Member of Parliament. Dr Stergomena replaces Mr Elias Kwandikwa who passed away on August 2, 2021 while undergoing treatment in Dar es Salaam.
Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax was a former Executive Secretary of Southern African Development Community (SADC), becomes first female ever to serve as Tanzania Minister of Defence, a very sensitive position.
