President Rupiah Banda has arrived back in the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were he went to join other invited Heads of State and Government to commemorate that country’s 50th Independence anniversary.
Mr Banda arrived in the country aboard the presidential challenger jet at 20:55hrs.
He was received on arrival by Vice president George Kunda, Secretary to the Treasury Evans Chibiliti, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha and Works and Supply Minister Mike Mulongoti.
Others are, Presidential Affairs Minister, Ronald Mukuma, Lusaka Province Minister Charles Shawa, Mines Minister Gladys Lundwe, Gender Minister Sara Sayifwanda, service chiefs and other government officials.
President Banda was not only invited in his capacity as Chairperson for the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) but also as a member of SADC, COMESA and as a neighboring Head of State.
The President was accompanied to the DRC by First Lady Thandiwe Banda, Foreign Affairs Minister Kabinga Pande and Chief of Protocol Bob Samakai and other government officials.
ZANIS
So where else is he flying to. This man is really having a blast. it seems he has a life long backlog of foreign tours to clear now doing it on TAX payers money. The people who voted him in did not vote for him to be aimlessly in the air but to improve the economy and uplift our declined standards of living.
I bet he has invited himself to another country, he has just come to find out if Father bwalya is stillmaking noise and whether William Banda is still issuing ultimatums. There afetr next week he is off. He is an absentee landlord or absentee presido. In the mines 7-9 days of being AWOL you are fired. So lets boot this great traveller out of state house.
The benefits of voting for RB!
The president is now checkin for his next destination. end of story
he has come to change clothes.
Arrived @ 20:55 hrs.Thats late & cold in lusaka.What was Nkunda doing in the cold that late? Man should be in between the sheets that time recuperating
Why don’t we just build state house at the airport???:-? I that way we can be saved from the traffic disturbance every time our prez comes to change his clothes? I hear the presidential plane never switches off, no time for restarting engines; cadres will also be permanently stationed at airport also as the time it takes to ferry them from town causes flight delays for their boss if they had to go back between landing and next take off!! Meanwhile William Banda has given himself a plot on the runway itself.
Atleast we are peaceful people coz even in the absence of a repulican president we are able to rule ouselves since the tragic passing on of our republican president MHSRIP.
Mudala ayisa mukuchinja amabamba so he can head out again
Even Hefty Jay never used to gallivant like this even when he was high
He is looking on the map for his next trip lol, zambia is a big f****ken joke.
#5 yes kunda should have been between sheets that late, bootlicking comes first. next stop namibia
if only i gave a sh!t about whether this dude was in the country or out. Makes no difference at all.
welcome mr. tourist. we did not miss u. in fact your absence was not felt by anyone in the republic.
so, which one is your next route to take? Rubbish Buyer (RB), u have no presidential manners.
#1 to 12 mulifipubasana, Its clear that you grew up in homes with jobless parents. Any job has its description and privalleges, one of the many functions of the president is to attend to international assignment. Since you want to know where next the President will be going, He will be flying to Ndola for the Trade fair. Sorry that it seems your parents never got to see the in side of the plane hence your frustration.
RB is not using your money afterall u are just sweeping the streets in the Diasporra or maybe cleaning plates. Just get your life, you will not ditract RB with your foolish , childish critisism
Wapya munzi-2011 – Your comments are not objective my friend. He may not be using ‘plate washing money’ – true. It’s worse: He is in fact using money meant for those poor people of Zambia – the over 90% of the population that live on less than US$1/day. The people who cannot even afford a single meal per day. the people that are (as we debate) dying from the measles outbreak that the govt has no moeny to prevent! Sad & irresponsible RB.
#14 Thanks Mwana but tell me how does a fellow who lives below US$1/day contribute to state coffers? Please also note that whether HH or Sata or say any President who be there after RB will be required to undertake such trips. When HH was been paid thousand of Dollars from Zambian coffers for his role in the privatisation of state owned companies, where there no Zambians living below US$1/day? The poor will always be there. Poverty striken people have been there long before RB was born and there shall be with us. We all want a better Zambia but lets be objective. I like your advise, Sorry if I offended u, though #1 to 12 is full of crap.
Its hypocritical, insensitive, overjoyous and impromptly inappropriate for my government to recall all embassy staff back home after all efforts that we have thrown behind MMD. If this is the new way of entering election year then lets but-heads because I am ready to expose the grand scheme under way for MMD to scoop the election dubiously! MMD under our current hypocritical tyrants have no place in our beloved country. In a few days I will be announcing which party Im joining.
I was impressed with Kenyan Prime Minister, who last week went into hospital and had surgery in Kenya instead of flying him to SA for treatment like the zambian government does because kenya has invested in its hospitals. Kenya is in africa same as zambia. So what is RB doing apart from flying from country to country with nothing to show for when he returns. One day it will be too late to fly to SA for treatment and then what?
Wanted to comment,but wont,scared of Wapya-Munzi 2011 reaction!!!!
It is the Presidents duty to attended international meetings but muziwapya remember is not the first president we have had and look at the meetings he attended who goes there, are not all presidents. remember when the president moves does not move alone but govenmnets official who are payed allowances. Our president is a tourist. When we talking about this issue is not that we hate our president we just call a spade a spade.