Samuel John Sitta (18 December 1942 – 7 November 2016) was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Urambo East of Tabora Region .

He was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania from December 2005 to 2010[1][2] and Minister of East African Cooperation from 2010[3] to 2015.

[4] He was elected to succeed Pius Msekwa as Speaker of the National Assembly on 26 December 2005.

[4] 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.