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President Mnangagwa Hires A Private Jet For a Week

5 years agoSun, 24 Mar 2019 06:45:16 GMT
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President Mnangagwa Hires A Private Jet For a Week

The Standard reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hired a luxurious private jet for over a week. The Standard interviewed George Charamba who said that the jet which was hired from Dubai at the cost of $12,500 an hour, remained in Zimbabwe on standby for a trip to South Africa by Emmerson Mnangagwa this week.

Said Charamba:

Then coming to the Bulawayo issue, the aircraft you are talking about came in on Thursday and has been here preparing to take the president to South Africa for the Sadc Solidarity Conference on Western Sahara, scheduled for 25-26 March 2019 in Pretoria.

“We booked the aircraft to be here until it brings back the president from the summit on Tuesday. If you were going to check, the aircraft is currently at the tarmac of the domestic flights and it is cheaper to hire the aircraft for days than to hire it on the day when the president wants to fly out.

Let me pre-empt you; I know you would want to ask why not use scheduled flights for the president. Here is the tricky issue. One, it is very risky to do that for both the president and the airline. In this case, we are talking of a national airline which has one aircraft to service all its routes. If the president was to use a scheduled flight, it means that all the luggage in that flight will be opened and subjected to search by our security systems

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