The Swaziland Government spent
E29 million (US$2.4 million) buying a fleet of top-of-the-range BMW cars and motorbikes for
the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in 2016 that have been
left unused ever since.
Member of Parliament Jan
Sithole told the House of Assembly on Thursday (8 March 2018) this demonstrated
how the Government wasted money.
A total of 14 BMW cars and
80 motorbikes were bought for the summit held in Swaziland when King Mswati
III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, was chair of SADC.
The Swazi Observer newspaper reported Sithole saying, ‘We warned the
minister against buying the cars because that would not make sense. It was much
better to rent the cars because the event was to last for only a month.’ He
added, ‘Now the cars are parked and no one has shown interest in buying them.’
The Times Sunday, a newspaper in Swaziland, in September 2017 identified the vehicles as 14 BMW 740i sedans and 80 Honda NC 750X motorbikes. They were being kept at Matsapha
Police College.
The cars were used to transport foreign dignitaries and the motorbikes were used by police to provide security.
See also
KINGDOM
FAILS SADC DELEGATES
KING TO PARTY WHILE SWAZIS GO HUNGRY
https://swazimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/king-to-party-while-swazis-go-hungry.html
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