On Saturday, May 20, President Samia Suluhu Hassan inaugurated the new State House in Chamwino Dodoma, which had been under construction for 30 months.
The building’s development began in 2020, when late President John Magufuli lay the foundation stone for the project’s start.
The former regime allocated nearly three billion Tanzanian shillings for the project, which translates to approximately Ksh175 million.
The land on which the new state building was built is 200 times larger than that of the State House in Dar es Salaam, and it will help Dodoma’s development as Tanzania’s capital and seat of authority.
In the early 1970s, founding father Mwalimu Julius Nyerere chose the Chamwino area as the site for the State House.
Unlike the State House in Dar es Salaam, which was established by colonialists, the Chamwino State House was built by the government with the help of the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF)—the National Service Wing.
During Magufuli’s leadership, he referred to the facility as “the largest State House in Africa,” implying that it solidified late President Julius Nyerer’s idea of relocating the State offices to Dodoma.
