Malawi President Peter Mutharika says he is wasting alot of time when he is on traveling out side the country using commercial fights, but his administration will not buy Presidential Jet to ease his transport problems.
Mutharika sounded in very disapointed tone telling Journalists at Kamuzu Palace that he wasted 10 hours during his recent trip to Malta, UK and South Africa after facing torment of being made to stand on very long queues at airports, waiting to catch a flight and making connections to reach final destination.
He said on his way to Malta, he spent 24 hours of traveling from Malawi to South Africa then Dubai to Rome where he got flight to Malta.
“The line you saw (picture circulating in social media) it was at Rome Airport." Said Mutharika and added "nothing was created” and "we wasted 10 hours of time."
He said pictures that stormed social media of him being on the queue at airports and the missing luggage were both real but the luggage was recovered after it was discovered that it got left behind at Johannesburg airport for some reasons.
Asked if at all his Government has any plans to buy a jet his response was “Let me answer that question once and for all. And then I hope this nonsense will stop once and for all.
Government has no plans to buy a Jet” responded Mutharika repeatedly “Government has no plans, Government has no plans Ok” he said
“We have no plans to buy a Jet period. So let’s leave this obsession about the Jet and move on” he added
Besides, Mutharika says his administration is continuing with investigations into circumstances led to the sale of Presidential Jet by Jouce Banda administration and also finding out how the proceeds of the sale were used for.
The Malawi leader says the ongoing investigations shall also see if any procurement system was followed when selling the Jet.
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