CCM let you down, vote Opposition, Duni tells Lindi

Lindi. The running mate for Chadema presidential candidate, Mr Juma Duni Haji, yesterday asked Lindi residents to vote for the opposition coalition because it was the only solution to poverty and other hardships that were ravaging their lives.

He was speaking at a campaign rally in Ruangwa, Nachingwea and Lindi districts in Lindi Region where he said despite the vast resources found in the southern regions, people there remained poor.

Mr Haji who usually calls himself the vice president in waiting, said if elected his government would ensure that challenges encountering farmers came to an end.

“It is very discouraging that despite the discovery of gas and oil in Lindi and Mtwara, people are living in absolute poverty and this despite the fact that many senior government leaders hail from the south,” he said.

Earlier, farmers in the area decried the need for the establishment of a new system of buying cashewnuts faulting the current one which they said is not benefiting them.

One of the farmers, Mr Khamis Mohammed, said many farmers in the area have this year are expecting a bumper harvest of cashewnuts, but that won’t be of any use because there is no reliable market for their produce.

In another development, residents of Kilangala Village in the region expressed concern over the tendency by politicians of disregarding them after they put them in power saying they the move has led to the derailment of development projects in the area. According to the residents, politicians are usually very friendly during election periods but they vansh after they are in power.

“For example we have a health centre in our area but there are no medicines and our people have to walk long distances to reach health facilities that are stocked with medicines,” said Mr Khalid Mchimi, a resident of Kilangala.