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Biti want law to restrict Mugabe trips
08 Jun 2017 at 07:18hrs | Views
Opposition PDP president Tendai Biti has said government must enact law that restricts President Robert Mugabe from excessive foreign travel.
Mugabe's voyages to international conferences such as the ongoing UN ocean summit have courted the ire of critics in cash-strapped Zimbabwe.
Mugabe should devote his energies to fixing cash-strapped Zimbabwe and stop trying to be another Christopher Columbus.
If Zimbabwe was "desperate" to attend this summit, Mugabe should have sent Zimbabwe's ambassador to the United Nations or the minister responsible for climate, the paper added.
By skipping this trip or sending someone junior, Mugabe would have saved this country tens of thousands of dollars.
Mugabe, 93, have made at least 20 foreign trips in 2016 - and already this year he's spent more time out of the country than in it. Last week he was in Cancun Mexico for a summit on disaster risk management.
Meantime ordinary Zimbabweans spend hours queuing to withdraw small amounts of cash from their banks, sometimes returning to queue for several days so they can empty their accounts each month.
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Mugabe's voyages to international conferences such as the ongoing UN ocean summit have courted the ire of critics in cash-strapped Zimbabwe.
Mugabe should devote his energies to fixing cash-strapped Zimbabwe and stop trying to be another Christopher Columbus.
If Zimbabwe was "desperate" to attend this summit, Mugabe should have sent Zimbabwe's ambassador to the United Nations or the minister responsible for climate, the paper added.
By skipping this trip or sending someone junior, Mugabe would have saved this country tens of thousands of dollars.
Mugabe, 93, have made at least 20 foreign trips in 2016 - and already this year he's spent more time out of the country than in it. Last week he was in Cancun Mexico for a summit on disaster risk management.
Meantime ordinary Zimbabweans spend hours queuing to withdraw small amounts of cash from their banks, sometimes returning to queue for several days so they can empty their accounts each month.
More to follow...
Source - dailynews
