WHEN Malawian President Joyce Banda announced that she would be selling the presidential jet and the state’s fleet of 60 Mercedes limousines, her actions were cheered by donors and the population alike. Banda said she was quite happy to travel by commercial airline, and railed at the cost of keeping the jet. The decision is […]
Malawi opposition lawmaker has strongly persuaded government not to offload the presidential jet which was bought by the late President Bingu wa Mutharika . Mutharika, who died in April, bought the French-made presidential jet Dassault Falcon 900 EX in 2009 for K3.4 billion (about $22.4 million) with projected maintenance and insurance costs at US$300, 000 per […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday finally let the cat out of the bag and disclosed that her government was going to sell the presidential jet controversially bought by her predecessor late Bingu Wa Mutharika bought with donor money meant to assist poor Malawians. President Banda disclosed this in London when he addressed Malawians living […]
“Oh, God, why don’t I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?” Marilyn French. It is not fair to blame the new government for the chaos, the rushed statements of policy and subsequent contradictory statements that have pervaded Malawi in the last couple of months. It is after all a new government, […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda arrived in London Monday to join other world leaders who have been invited to the celebrations of the Queen’s 60 years on the throne and later in the evening attended star-studded diamond jubilee concert in front of Buckingham Palace. President Banda was accompanied to the concert- by the First Gentleman retired Chief […]
Finance Minister Ken Lipenga, has said no decision has been made yet on what to do with Malawi’s controversial presidential jet. “No decision has been made yet,” he told PANA Sunday while reacting to reports in the British media that President Joyce Banda has decided to sell the jet. “We are looking at several options at […]
President Joyce Banda has disclosed that the presidential jet which was bought by government of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika will be sold together with 60 Mercedes government cars. Mutharika bought the French-made presidential jet Dassault Falcon 900 EX in 2009 for K3.4 billion (about $22.4 million) with projected maintenance and insurance costs at US$300, […]
Unexpected political and economic change has come to Malawi albeit under a sad cloud as we have lost a President, the late Bingu wa Mutharika. The last three years of Pesident Mutharika’s tenure were tumultuous to say the least, characterised by megalomaniac decisions that alienated the government from various sectors of the nation, one of which was to purchase a presidential jet, […]
Malawi’s Head of State Joyce Banda says cabinet would soon discuss the merits and demerits of retaining the presidential jet, which was bought by government for the late President Bingu wa Mutharika amid serious reservations by Western donors, including Britain. “Cabinet will have to decide what we should with it,” she said of the presidential […]