Our "Tourist President" off again to Brisbane

(Ghana Palaver) -- Just a day after his “tourist” friend, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, paid a three-day official visit to him in Ghana, our “tourist” President has made a quick one to Senegal and back. He flew off last Saturday to Dakar, Senegal and returned on Sunday evening.

The purpose? To meet with the same British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but this time with eight other Heads of State in attendance, to discuss with him the United Kingdom’s NEPAD programme. A new British assistance programme for Africa.

This trip is the number 27 for the Ghanaian President who has been in office for only 14 months.

The President’s overseas trips are now becoming mind bogging. “What is it that he has to discuss with Tony Blair that he could not have discussed with him when he was Ghana,” an irate civil servant who described himself as a Ghanaian Tax payer, equipped.

Ghana Palaver has learnt that next month, President Kufuor flies off again on his 28th trip. This time to Brisbane, New Zealand to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). President Kufuor lists travelling as his hobby on his official curriculum vitae.