Keltria
12-20-2004, 11:22 AM
Blantyre - Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika over the weekend finally moved into a controversial $100m palace which until now housed parliament, a top official said on Monday.
The building, with some 300 air-conditioned rooms set in a 555 hectare plot outside the administrative capital Lilongwe, is widely seen as a folly of the country's founder president Kamuzu Banda.
The former dictator used state funds over 20 years to build the palace when millions of his subjects lived in chronic poverty. Banda only lived there for 90 days.
I am so sick of this... We the South African and African people have been subjected to this kind of thing all the time. The spend billions on themselves and could not care less about the people they are supposed to look after.
The building, with some 300 air-conditioned rooms set in a 555 hectare plot outside the administrative capital Lilongwe, is widely seen as a folly of the country's founder president Kamuzu Banda.
The former dictator used state funds over 20 years to build the palace when millions of his subjects lived in chronic poverty. Banda only lived there for 90 days.
I am so sick of this... We the South African and African people have been subjected to this kind of thing all the time. The spend billions on themselves and could not care less about the people they are supposed to look after.