Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
The Economic and Equity Party (EEP) has questioned President Edgar Lungu’s commitment to adhering to austerity measures his government recently announced.
EEP President Chilufya Tayali says his party is particularly disappointed that president Lungu has allowed government to charter a private plane for him to travel to New York for the UN summit.
Mr. Tayali says chartering such an expensive plane only shows President Lungu’s incoherence to stick to his own government’s austerity measures.
He states that much as the EEP is not against the president attending such important summits, his party is however of the view that president Lungu should have used a commercial plane.
In an interview with QTV News, Mr. Tayali says his party has established that the plane that was chartered for president Lungu to go to New York for UN General Assembly cost almost K400 million.
Mr. Tayali says his party believes members of parliament have a duty in this case to ask government to tell the nation how much exactly was paid for the chartered plane.
He states that there is no justification for government to charter such an expensive plane for the president on account of security concerns.