President Rupiah Banda is today expected in Livingstone to officiate at a two-day Zambia International Business Advisory Council (ZIBAC) V1 conference at Zambezi Sun hotel.
According to a program released by Southern Province Permanent Secretary Darius Hakayobe, President Banda is expected to touch down at Livingstone International Airport at 16:00 hours and will be received by Provincial Minister Daniel Munkombwe, Provincial MMD Chairman Sol Muzyamba, City Mayor Joram Mwinda and other senior officials.
Mr. Banda is expected to officially give his opening address on Wednesday morning at the conference where Commerce Minister Felix Mutati, representatives from the private sector, co-operating partners and cabinet ministers will be present.
The ZIBAC V1 conference will be officially closed on Thursday by President Banda who will then be expected to fly back to Lusaka at 14:30 hours .
And Special Assistant to the President Dickson Jere said the meeting will have a restricted number of participants, who will include selected Cabinet Ministers, business representatives, cooperating partners and international advisors.
The meeting will also comprise of ten high-level business leaders from different countries and business sectors led by Lord Simon Cairns.
The theme of this year’s ZIBAC meeting is “Global Economic Crisis: Zambia’s Response to growth and Competitiveness.’’
ZIBAC was created in 2003 to provide advise to the Republican President and his Cabinet through the support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), other donors and the Commonwealth Business Council.
The ZIBAC process has previously been used to identify key priorities and action plans to address issues such as telecoms, policy, labour reforms, and private-public partnerships for infrastructure development, citizen’s economic empowerment and mining agreements.
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RB is a F.A.T swine. Could be the cause of the flu.
Go on your excellency move around.There isnt much work in the office!
Bwezani the Tourist! go have fun bululu.Are those 100 hearses you have bought @ $29 000 each from China cater for Ministers as well.I mean when we have a “national moarning”
But whats up with our president? he is never in the office . . . he should consider importing a mobile office from china not mobile clinics & those useless hearses-
Can someone build a mobile office for this man please.