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Sitta, a member of the majority Chama Cha Mapinduzi party, served as a member of parliament from

1975 to 1995 and was director-general of the Tanzania Investment Centre. Later he served again as
an MP, representing Urambo Mashariki.[3]
He was elected to succeed Pius Msekwa as Speaker of the National Assembly on 26 December
2005.[3] He was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of East African Cooperation in 2010.
Samuel Sitta died at around 3am on 7 November 2016 at TUM School of Medicine (Klinikum rechts
der Isar) in Munich (Germany) after falling ill for a short period.[4]

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