AfricaPress-Tanzania: President John Magufuli has appointed Dr Bashiru Ally as the new Chief Secretary with immediate effect, filling in the vacancy following the death of Ambassador Engineer John Kijazi that occurred on February 17, 2021.
Before his appointment to the new post, Dr Bashiru was serving as the Secretary General of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi, a position he was appointed to after the resignation of his predecessor, Abdulrahman Kinana.
He will be sworn in on Saturday at 9a.m by President Magufuli at the State House in Dar es Salaam.
According to a statement issued on Friday evening by the Director of Presidential Communications, Gerson Msigwa, President Magufuli also appointed Dr Bashiru as a new ambassador.
Dr Bashiru was first appointed by the CCM chairman, President Magufuli in December 2017 to lead a committee that traced the ruling party’s assets and liabilities.
Thereafter in 2018, the technocrat, who was by then serving at the University of Dar es Salaam’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, was endorsed by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) to be the new party’s Secretary General.
