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Mnangagwa charters expensive luxury jet to Rwanda
03 Jul 2019 at 06:20hrs | Views
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week charter the Dubai based luxury jet to fly him to Rwanda for an official visit.
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that, "His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be attending celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of Rwanda's liberation on 4 July 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda."
Mnangagwa and ailing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga have been heavily criticised for using luxury jets to travel for business and medical pilgrimage while the nation is suffering.
Since coming to power through a bloody coup in November 2017, Mnangagwa has been on more than 30 foreign trips.
In February, Presidnetial Spokesperson George Charamba said Mnangagwa was determined to ensure Zimbabwe re-engaged with the world after two decades of isolation under Mugabe's autocratic rule. "Diplomacy doesn't come cheap," he was quoted as saying by the state-owned Herald.
Rwanda's holiday celebrates the overthrow, in 1994, of the genocidal regime that massacred somewhere between half a million and a million people in only a matter of months.
Meanwhile Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, who has been in office since 2000, on Tuesday said that he had asked his supporters to keep thinking differently about his candidature for the next presidential election.
Kagame, who is also the chairman of the ruling party Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was re-elected in 2017 by winning 98.79 percent of the vote.
"My view was not to continue. Honestly, it's an open secret whether it was in my party or who I interacted with, and I told them my view of what should happen," Kagame said at a press conference, referring to the 2017 election.
"Their view was completely on one side and my view was on the other side. We reconciled that and I agreed to listen to them," he said, adding that he had asked them to keep thinking differently and not to come up with the same argument next time.
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that, "His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be attending celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of Rwanda's liberation on 4 July 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda."
Mnangagwa and ailing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga have been heavily criticised for using luxury jets to travel for business and medical pilgrimage while the nation is suffering.
Since coming to power through a bloody coup in November 2017, Mnangagwa has been on more than 30 foreign trips.
In February, Presidnetial Spokesperson George Charamba said Mnangagwa was determined to ensure Zimbabwe re-engaged with the world after two decades of isolation under Mugabe's autocratic rule. "Diplomacy doesn't come cheap," he was quoted as saying by the state-owned Herald.
Meanwhile Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, who has been in office since 2000, on Tuesday said that he had asked his supporters to keep thinking differently about his candidature for the next presidential election.
Kagame, who is also the chairman of the ruling party Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was re-elected in 2017 by winning 98.79 percent of the vote.
"My view was not to continue. Honestly, it's an open secret whether it was in my party or who I interacted with, and I told them my view of what should happen," Kagame said at a press conference, referring to the 2017 election.
"Their view was completely on one side and my view was on the other side. We reconciled that and I agreed to listen to them," he said, adding that he had asked them to keep thinking differently and not to come up with the same argument next time.
Source - Byo24News
