Wanabodi,
1. Je hizi ziara ni pesa kiasi gani za walipa kodi itatumika? Je hiyo entourage itahusisha jamaa zake kwenda kutembea? Tutaomba final list of nominated persons ambao watalipiwa na serikali! Who monitors how much JK spends ktk hizi ziara? Kama kuna watu wanamwita basi walipie- hizi pesa zijenge nyumba za waalimu kule Kisarawe! Nadhani Ziara hizi ziwe chache sana- aunganishe na Mkutano wa baraza la Usalama ili kupunguza gharama!
2. Nilikuwa naangalia Ziara ya Nguesso wa Congo US mwaka jana- ni hasara kubwa kwa Congo Brazaville. Hebu angalia hizi details hapa chini!
[edit] Personal spending
In January 2007, journalists published accounts showed Sassou Nguesso's personal spending habits. On one five-night stay in April 2006 in New York at the Waldorf Astoria, the suite occupied by Sassou-Nguesso recorded £12,000 of room service charges during a five-night stay, and a total cost of £73,000[2].
When Sassou Nguesso attended the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September 2006, almost £14,000 of room service at the Waldorf Astoria was added to his bill during another five-night stay. His entourage, including several members of his family, occupied 44 rooms which together ran up a bill of £130,000. The bills on September 19 included two bottles of Cristal champagne charged at £400. This was pointed out by the British newspaper The Sunday Times to be "comfortably more than the £106,000 that Britain gave the Republic of Congo in humanitarian aid in 2006."[3]
The spending was run up in the year that the World Bank, led by Paul Wolfowitz, delayed the debt relief deal known as the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) Initiative after learning that aides to Sassou-Nguesso had paid £100,000 in cash towards a September 2005 hotel bill totalling £169,000. The Congo-Brazzaville debt relief package was provided on the grounds that the Republic of Congo was too poor to meet its financial commitments.
As of June 2007, Nguesso, along with President Omar Bongo of Gabon, is being investigated by the French police due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France. He has been cited in recent years during French criminal inquiries into hundreds of millions of euros of illicit payments by Elf, the former French state-owned oil group.[1]
In July 2007, British NGO Global Witness published documents on its website that appear to show that the President's son, Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso, may have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that may derive from the country's oil sales on shopping sprees in Paris and Dubai.[4] The documents show that in August 2006 alone, Denis Christel, who is the head of Cotrade - the marketing branch of Congo's state oil firm SNPC - spent $35,000 on purchases from designers such as Louis Vuitton and Roberto Cavalli.[5]