CHIEF MUKUNI TO BUY ANOTHER WHITE LIMO AND A PASSEGER JET. Chief Mukuni said the limousines were in the range of US$200,000 to US$400,000. He said his subjects were happy with the limousine initiative as it gave them pride. Chief Mukuni said he was now planning to purchase a jet and another limousine, white in colour. He said the limousine entered Zambia sometime in January through the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia. On tourism investments, chief Mukuni said Zambia needed to take a new approach to tourism development if it was to earn a lot of foreign exchange from the sector. There are countries like Seychelles and Kenya; they have no mines, but they are doing better than us because of tourism, nothing else! he said. Chief Mukuni also said he intended to expand his tourism business in Livingstone by venturing into boat cruises on the Zambezi River, using a boat and three amphibious buses, which would be driven onto the Zambezi River after game viewing. In addition, he plans to invest in Ghana, using his Mukuni Big Five tourism sanctuary, which offers lion walks, cheetah interactions and elephant rides. Chief Mukuni said a Ghanaian tourism team, which was in the country recently, had invited Mukuni Big Five to open up branches in that country. They (Ghanaians) invited me, and I will be going there in July. I dont want to just invest in Zambia. I want to invest in what I know best - handling lions and elephants. So, I want to spread over and I have also ordered a boat which should be landing anytime from now to be called the Lion King of the Victoria Falls. But the Ghanaians are saying Why not bring it to Accra? he said. Chief Mukuni said the 100-seat capacity US$200,000 boat will not only be for sunset cruises, but will also do weddings, luncheons and conferences on the river. We are looking more at local tourism. We want to have an African touch to it as most of the boats here have a European touch other than the names, he said. Chief Mukuni, however, said he was having problems acquiring docking space on the shores of the Zambezi River from ZAWA.
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:51:13 +0000
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