Vice President Guy Scott has clarified the recent tours that President Michael Sata has under taken. Dr. Scott has since described as unfortunate reports in some sections of the media alleging that President has become a tourist.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Livingstone today, Dr. Scott said all the trips that the President has gone to are important to the country’s development agenda.
He explained that no country can develop without the interacting with others. He said this is why President Sata’s trips are justified and important if Zambia is to record progress in its national development.
The Vice President further cited the Queens Jubilee, the RIO Brazil 2012, as some of the vital meetings that are key to the current and future development of the country.
Dr. Scott wondered why some opposition leaders think that President Sata’s foreign trips are just mere visits that do not add value to the country’s development.
He added that President Sata as a head of state has the right to travel for the betterment of the country.
Opposition MMD’s President Nevers Mumba is quoted in today’s edition of the Post newspapers saying President Sata has become a tourist following the numbers of trips that he has undertaken.
And Dr Scott has said that government has no intentions of injuring tour operators by enforcing the ban of the use of foreign currency in trading. Dr. Scott said that government was alive to the fact that the tourism is an export industry, which deals with foreign tourists who need to be safeguarded.
The Vice President however said that government will collectively discuss the concerns being raised by tour operators before coming up with a position for the sector.
He was reacting to concerns raised by Livingstone Tourism Association in Livingstone on Saturday night. Tour Operators in Livingstone have asked government to allow them to continue operating Customer Foreign Currency dollar accounts.
Livingstone Tourism Association Chairman Kingsley Lilamono said that tourism is an industry that invoices and receives in foreign currency and government’s move to ban use of foreign currency transactions would be difficult for the sector.
Meanwhile, Dr. Scott has said that the PF-government is enjoying good relations with the church. Dr Scott said that both the Church and government have a common cause, which is to develop the country.
He said that the church and government both want to see progress for the country. The Vice President was speaking to journalist in Livingstone shortly after attending a Church service at Maramba Catholic parish. Early Dr Scott met Church elders from the Hillcrest Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The closed door meeting which started at 07:30 lasted for 30 minutes.
QFM
Chiwamila Galu kuluma mbuzi
Never mumba has nothing to talk about…….he just barks anyhow!!!!!!
Sata’s trips are now important cz he is in power & doing precisely wat R.B was doing. Wats so important about him to travel and other presidents not to? PF is one uncivilised party,its a party full of educated fools who dont even know and remember wat they say or said.
Mmmmmm ba kabali twalimishiba…
What goes around comes around.Karma!
30 minutes meeting!!! what was discussed tangibly?
I think the PF Govt is so short sighted. They laughed at RB’s travels calling him a tourist and now they are giving the very same reasons he gave for his frequent travels. As they say ” the truth is in the pudding” and whereas their has been some tangible evidence from RB’s travels, we will wait to see what comes out of Sata’s travels. Judging from the pictures we have seen, it looks like the wives of ministers are forming part of the delegation and I struggle to see how these ladies fit into our development agenda.
University of Namibia guru, I beg to differ with you. Say PF has been in Power for 9 months how many foreign trips has Sata undertaken? May be 3 to other continents. India, UK/Switzerland and Brazil now. The rest have been Botswana, Zimbabwe. For RB it was every week naya. Kwena Bwezani naena mambala mbuya wandi. Anyway, speak or write, icalo cilekumfwa.
just take account of the projects that came out of his visit.Â
Now for you Chindakwanda Botswana ,south Africa and zimbabwe are not foreign trips?what do you smoke please share with me.
Anyway competitively ba rb was a frequent flyer. His flight mileage was more than that of a african commercial flight pilot.
What! Did Guy Scott actually say that? These guys are really laughable for their stupidity. Are their brains and memories so small like that of a fly? And with the brain of a fly this guy is our Vice President?
Did he say…’He added that President Sata as a head of state has the right to travel for the betterment of the country’….did he use the word ‘right’ in place of ‘duty’ even with his reasonable command of english?
for all our short-comings, i think that we zambians are a very forgiving people and it would be in the pf’s best interest to admit to the misguided critisms they made of RB’s foreign trips and ask for our forgiveness, let alone RB’s forgiveness, otherwise we will keep note of this and take it that you think we are so dumb and stupid as not to realise that you are doing the very same thing that you so rabidly condemned
Chola Boy, just shut up! you have a memory of a gold fish, not long ago you were against RB’s travels ( which i think were productive) and you are now supporting CNPs travelling.
I dont see any meaningful development coming from Sata’s travels, it is actually a waste of limited resources because he carried with him his sister in-laws and other uneducated wives of minsters on GRZ expense.
Education is light it opens your eyes to see clearly ,least you stumble….Ignorance is like darkness, you cant see beyond self, Ignorance&myopic are the sources of unfounded fear & criticism thus dwarfing the very best potential to develop the country…..Sata was the loudest on foreign trips the saddest is including non official liabilities of relatives. Sata MUST WALK THE TALK-HYPOCRISY!! Zambia,can do better,arise !!!Â
Nahe. Kabompo yami.:d
@emwani ,shinga yenu…..
This guy with a PhD with a brain of a fish… Â this must be the most useless white Zambian
What is so productive about attending the Queens Jubilee?
Ma rubbish.You people just visited UK for shopping.
Energy crisis at home and you fly to Rio to buy some buses for GBM.
Is there anything that these guys campaigned on that they actually believed in? They did a massive donchi on anybody foo.lish enough to vote for them. I mean they should at least stand by one thing they campaigned on. Chinese investors/infestors they have backtracked, small cabinet kulibe, Barosteland Agreement banakangiwa, constitution slowly being watered down and certainly not in 90 days, load shedding getting worse and the biggest one of all, more money in your pockets only applies to well connected Bembas and Judge Chikopo.
Shame! I feel sorry for SATA & PF bcoz they were voted on the platform of lies & deception! Sata critisized MMD & RUPIAH BANDA that he was a tourist but Sata has become a worst tourist! How does Sata waste our money just to see his communist friend Robert Mugabe? How does that help us as Zambians economically or politically? Sata is now a shame to Zimbabweans who are in struggle to remove Mugabe! How does going as a tourist to Britain help Zambians? The first Sata should do is to apologise to Zambians for the lies and deception! He need to apologise for condemning Rupiah Banda who made important trips for the goodness of Zambians. HH can be a good president. Sata is just wasting our money thru his abuse of office by taking his relatives for their personal business trips to Brazil! Shame!
The Veep informed parly that RB gobbled K39 billion. Hope he wil tell us how MCS will gobbled and compare the two with the results-income!
Sata should know that very sooner than later, the people of Zambia will call him to account for all his lies and Bembanization of this country. It is such a shame that an old man that he is can go out campaigning on a platform of lies to ascend into power as a means to enrich only his tribesmates, relatives and friends. I just wonder what he thinks whenever he is reminded of all the promises he made during the campaigns and that 90 days after ascending into power, he has achieved zero. Zoona ndiye bu Chimbwi No Plan! It’s even an insult to the legendary scavenger/hunter because for all we know, Sitongwani/Suntwe/Situkumba does at least have a hunting plan.
The problem is not that the President should not travel, but this President did not think that his predecessor should travel. He criticised investment seeking trips that RB made left right and centre and went on to mock him as a ‘mobile President.’ Now we saw the investments that flowed into Zambia as a result of RB’s trips, but we can’t see any good coming out of the trips Sata is making when he is contradicting himself thirty times a day. One minute he says ‘I don’t eat kapenta.’ The next minute he is eating kapenta and complaining that it is not enough. I am sorry, but I believe that Sata is suffering from early cognitive disorder.Â
Per adventure the title Chimbwi No Plan fits well with his face saver Guy Scott equally mixed up in his thinking. Mr Sata was greeted by protestors in London for his unstatemanship this was not adding value to Zambia but erosion of value to Zambia.These protests were also in Geneva Switzland and NewYork. This is a disgrace to our nation on account of personal posturing in other country’s internal affairs.
Now when we say he is a Chola boy, why does he refuse?
number 12 mashimba walitumpa sana, shut up
Village country…, going to Botswana, Zim or SA is also international but I think much less expensive. It is like visiting your neighbour like we do in the compounds, unlike moving from Linda compound to new Kasama. There you will spend on a minibus. Just a thought. The officials may have convinced him to be moving so that they remain freer. Because he shouts at them. Mice play when the cat is away.
#14(engineer-australia). This man must be related to HH in some significant way. Every contribution that he makes is negative. What a warped personality.
It’s not only HH who is criticizing Sata, many other people are unhappy with him. Get a life and leave HH alone! Have you ever read any positve news about HH in the Post newspaper? Why are you not blogging about it? You people seems to be poisoned by Mmembe’s politics of hate!!!
All presidents we have had each had a nick name can someone help me list them starting with KK!
Fred Joe – for auctioning the Kwacha
KK was called Chilila lila for shedding phony tears at press briefings. Others called him fonko fonko. I am sure you know for the rest that came after KK
ba veep, there is nothing to defend here. President sata has been very moderate in his travels. Comparing him to rb is unfair. By now rb would have made 200 trips.
what exactly does mr sata go to do and we are never told for how long these trips are he just goes and stays for a long time like he is visiting his village like now he has been away over a week including the weekend doing what exactly just taking photos with brazlian children?
Ok king cobra mr satana,now i ll give you 1% for kwacha now picking up againest dolla us we do work with dollas,now is 1$=5,171.we need to be back at 1$=4,500.then i ll give you my vote 2016.
8a veep, there is nothing to defend here. President sata has been very moderate in his travels. Comparing him to rb is unfair. By now rb would have made 200 trips. I thought neverlands(nevers mumba) would be different from under 5 aka hh, i was wrong. These cheap opposition guys have nothing to talk about.
A Govt of the Bembas for the Bembas by the Bembas! Whew!
Nobody said that all the trips that Rupiah undertook were touristic in nature though most of them were. Comparatively, Sata has only attended high level international engagements with justifiable representation at that level.
Conversely Rupiah was always attending all meetings, sometimes he was the only head of state at such meetings, the level of deputy ministers, a complete waste of meager national resources indeed.
In fact Nevers Mumba’s statement confirms beyond any doubts that Rupiah was indeed a tourist
Every trip Sata makes,look at his agenda its always open….to attend the queens jubilee it was an invitation,then conected to swizerland to un labor matters to give a key note speech… so we cant blame his trips now ,give him space pliiiiiizzzzzz!
As a nation, we are now a laughing stoke. A joke we are really. What is Sata plan has Sata with technology if he does not have money to invest it in manufacturing? Mambilima is the deputj CJ, how is Mumba going to get her confirmnation for the role filled by someone else? An unqualified. Museba was once appointed only to reverse the appointment the following day. There is a lot of erratic under currents those around Sata must be called to account one day. All is without doubt not well in our corridors of power.
RB was a real tourist.
Mr VP, which trip has the President made to woe investors, is it the India, England, Brazil, Botswana, Uganda or Zimbabwe one?
Sata he also critised his friend i remember he onced call Banda a tourist and Guy was laughing now is defending him wat goes around cpmes around
We are not disputing that fact, Chola Boy. What we are against is the inclusion of Nawakwi, Chipimo and other hangers like Mrs Mwamba on the trip at tax payers expensense
Ba Br Necers you used to travel a lot using the church coffers no one ever challenged you the Lord is watching.Zambians Sata time and again he has said it that he does not like travelling the same Zambians were saying the President is sick.I hope it’s not jealous the President has made an impact at international level well done Mr President
Groundbreaking stuff.
Cry my beloved country!
Pafwaka Party for you.
Fuseke Gay Scotsman!
ba vp please address the UNZA STRIKE
THE SAME PIPO WHERE SAYING HOW WILL HE DEVELOP THE COUNTRY & RECEIVE AID FROM DONORS IF HIS ALWAZ DELEGATING???
HE FEARS THAT HE WILL DIE IN AN EAROPLANE BECAUSE OF HIS HEART CONDITIONS??? BRA BRA BRA
NOMBA APA UMUFYASHI APAMEKO JOB, FYABIPA!!!!! UMUNTU TATASHA THAT ALL I CAN SAY BUT THE FACT IS SATA IS RULING.
CHIKUBABE!!!
People just love to complain. Sata was criticized for not travelling and now for travelling. People should just shut up.