CCK promises youth opportunities, loan reform, and market reform
CCK presidential candidate, Mr David Mwaijojele (left), campaigns with running mate Masoud Ally Abdalah at a rally at Kabwe Bus Stand, Mbeya on Monday, September 22, 2025. PHOTO|SADDAM SADICK
The party has also pledged to tackle cases where domestic workers are impregnated by employers, insisting that anyone found guilty must marry the worker, while supporting young couples in registering their marriages.
Mbeya. Chama cha Kijamii (CCK) presidential candidate David Daud Mwaijojele has pledged to remove elders clinging to public offices and create opportunities for youths struggling with education.
The party has also pledged to tackle cases where domestic workers are impregnated by employers, insisting that anyone found guilty must marry the worker, while supporting young couples in registering their marriages.
Speaking on Monday, September 22, 2025, at a campaign rally at Kabwe Bus Stand in Mbeya, Mr Mwaijojele said CCK is committed to bringing change for citizens.
He added that, if given the mandate, the party will oversee drafting a new constitution and address the daily concerns of Tanzanians’ lives.
He said CCK’s vision is to end exploitative, so-called blood-draining loans (‘kausha damu’) and replace them with empowering loans that support small-capital entrepreneurs, including boda boda riders.
"The loans we provide will be interest-free. Those without resources will receive assistance, and there will be no property repossession or interference with family marriages due to these loans," he said.
He also noted that local traders, particularly in Mwanjlewa, face harassment through excessive levies, unveiling that CCK plans to build a modern market and remove existing exploitative charges.
"If CCK forms the government, we will reform transportation. Flights from Dar es Salaam to Mbeya will cost Sh100,000. We will also introduce competition for trains and railways and end monopolies by providing capital to young entrepreneurs," he said.
On agriculture, he pledged modern farming methods to reduce back-breaking work, providing better tools, irrigation, and a national warehouse system to store and distribute food freely.
On the constitutional issue, Mr Mwaijojele said CCK will ensure a new constitution focuses on citizens’ daily lives rather than partisan politics, emphasising that the previous leadership’s time is over.
"People have clung to offices, and educated youths are struggling. When CCK takes power, we will remove these elders, give opportunities to youths to drive change, and build homes for the elderly in rural areas so they can rest," he said, adding:
"We will provide uniforms to police officers, build homes for retired elders in towns and villages, and create proper environments for uneducated youths," he added.
Earlier, the party’s running mate, Mr Masoud Ally Abdallah, said that if elected, they will act against employers who impregnate domestic workers and abandon them, reiterating that any man who does so must marry the worker, and the party will support young couples to wed.
"We know the challenges citizens face, especially domestic workers who are impregnated and abandoned. We will fight this issue. Anyone who impregnates a domestic worker must marry her, and we will support young couples to wed," said Mr Abdallah.
Meanwhile, CCK candidate for Mbalizi Road Ward, Henry Ndomba, said he decided to run due to a lack of leadership that delivers development.
He expressed confidence that CCK will address citizens’ challenges, warning that CCM should not be expected to deliver anything after re-election under current policies.
"We are ready to serve citizens. We do not want to see the Green Party monopoly from the ward level to the presidency. We have policies that impact citizens’ lives," said Mr Ndomba.
