JB cancels trip to Brussels, proceeds to UAE
President Joyce Banda has cancelled an official trip to Brussels, Belgium, in compliance with travel restrictions announced by Minister of Finance Maxwell Mkwezalamba in the week.
This comes in the wake of the current donor aid freeze and the ongoing cash-gate saga that has rocked her administration, resulting in the Ministry of Finance curtailing both internal and external travels for public servants, including the President, except in exceptional circumstances.
Banda is, however, proceeding to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tomorrow to attend the World Economic Forum from where she will travel to Kuwait for the Africa Arab Summit because these trips are fully funded, according to presidential press secretary Steven Nhlane.
Nhlane disclosed that organisers of the Dubai and Kuwait conferences will meet costs of the president’s travel and that of her entourage.
“Yes, I can confirm that she’s cancelled her trip to Brussels because it required government to fund it. However, she’s still going to UAE and Kuwait because the two trips have been fully-funded by the organisers,” he said.
Wow……and the time factor doesn’t matter, Mr Nhlane?? Unbelievable!
There have been a few trips of this kind so far but no significant investments from those countries is seen on the ground.Are those trips worth it?
Does the World Economic Forum provide funding for the travel of presidents, adc (wonyamula ambulera), security detail, ministers, and the whole entorage? These are just lies. Koma PP ikadzatuluka mboma tidzamva zambiri.
Just contact the world economic forum and get the ral stuff
Just contact the world economic forum and get the real stuff. Noninvestigative reporting at its best
Where is evidence that she indeed cancelled this trip? This is a nonexistent trip as far as am concerned and it’s aimed at bamboozling people for her matako akana pansi behavior.
I hear JB has been banned from travelling to the EU because of the cash gate scandal and the looting of donor funds by the PP party . What an embarrassment for someone to be put in the same category as Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. The announcement that she has cancelled the trip could be a cover-up. The truth shall make us free.