Abdallah Omar Kigoda (25 November 1953 – 12 October 2015) was a Tanzanian CCM politician and

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for

Handeni Handeni is a town located in the Handeni Urban District, Tanga Region, Tanzania. It is the capital of both Handeni Town Council and Handeni District. The 2012 national census estimated the population of Handeni Town Council at 79,056. Transpor ...

constituency from 1995 to 2015. He served as

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from 1996 to 1997, as Minister of Energy and Minerals from 1997 to 2000, as Minister of State in the President's Office for Planning and Privatisation from 2000 to 2005, and again as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2012 to 2015. He overwhelmingly won the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) nomination for Handeni constituency prior to the 2005 parliamentary election, receiving 1,216 votes while the nearest of his four opponents for the nomination received 94. He died on 12 October 2015 whilst undergoing treatment in India."Waziri Kigoda afariki dunia nchini India"
''Mwananchi''

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