Frederick Mwita Werema (10 October 1955 – 30 December 2024) was the Attorney General of Tanzania from 2009 until his resignation in 2014.
Before his appointment Werema was High Court of Tanzania Judge in the Commercial Division.
[2] He acquired his lLaw degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam, American University Graduate School in the United States,[3] Italy on Contracts, the United Kingdom and Bolivia where he learned how to privatise electricity companies.
In 2005 he was appointed an alternate member[4] of SADC Tribunal[5] before that in 1999, as Director of Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights.
He resigned in December 2014 after he was accused of authorizing the transfer of about $120 million from a controversial escrow account.