He is currently the longest serving Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania, a former Minister of Infrastructure, and a former Member of Parliament for Bariadi West constituency from 2005 to 2020.
[1] After serving as Attorney-General, he was appointed as Minister of East African Affairs in the Cabinet named on January 4, 2006.
[4] He resigned on 20 April 2008 after it was revealed by UK's Serious Fraud Office that he holds US$ 1million (over 1 billion Tanzania shillings) in an overseas offshore account, allegedly as kickbacks from a controversial military radar deal between UK's BAE Systems and Tanzania government which he partly oversaw while serving as Attorney-General.
However, an investigation by Tanzania's Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau concluded that Chenge was not related to the radar scam.
[5][6] In 2009, Andrew Chenge was involved in an accident in Dar es Salaam in which two women died.