Sidik Mia (4 March[citation needed] 1965 – 12 January 2021) was a Malawian businessman, politician, and Member of Parliament who held various ministerial positions within the Cabinet of Malawi beginning in 2004, serving as Minister of Transport and Public Works since June 2020.
He paid for educational fees for many underprivileged students and also assisted a lot of vulnerable citizens through his charity program.
Sidik Mia was elected a Member of Parliament for Chikwawa-Nkombedzi constituency in May 2004 in Malawi's southern district of Chikwawa and was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Food Security in June 2004.
[5] This followed the constitutional crisis in which the National Governing Council of the Democratic Progress Party, of which Mia was a senior member, had resolved to contend to the Supreme Court that Joyce Banda was ineligible to succeed Mutharika as President.
[6] In January 2014 Sidik Mia resigned from the People's Party (PP) and from his cabinet post as Minister for Transport.