[3] He completed his secondary education, and then was funded by the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union( KNCU) to continue his studies in India.
Although he was a Catholic, he studied at Aligarh Muslim University in India, where he obtained his BA, LLB, and MA degrees.
[6] During the Ugandan Gold Scandal, in March 1966 Saidi was a member of a commission chaired by Sir Clement Nageon de L'Estang, vice president of the East African Court of Appeal, that looked into allegations by Daudi Ochieng that the Ugandan prime minister Milton Obote and others including Colonel Idi Amin had received gold, ivory, monies or other property from the Congo, and were conspiring to overthrow the government.
On grounds of natural justice and equity, daughters like sons in every part of Tanzania should be allowed to inherit the property of their deceased fathers, whatever its kind or origin, on the basis of equality.
He was a supporter of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and did not deal effectively with the strains caused by implementation of the government's socialist policies.
[11] On 1 November 1975 Saidi swore in Mwalimu Nyere at the State House in Dar es Salaam for another five years in office.
[13] In 1983 Saidi was appointed to the Law Reform Commission of Tanzania, chaired by Hamisi Amiri Msumi, which issued its first report on delays in the disposal of civil suits in February 1986.
[1] On 5 March 2010 a new building worth 1.3bn/- was inaugurated in Dar es Salaam in honor of Saidi for use by the Supreme Court as an administrative block.