The Executive Mansion on Wednesday evening announced that President George Manneh Weah was temporarily delaying his departure from the country on a three-leg visit abroad, hours after a press release from the Presidency said he was off to Senegal, Morocco and France.
Presidential Press Secretary Sam Mannah told Journalists that the President will instead leave Liberia this Thursday to pursue talks to promote national development.
Earlier on Tuesday, Health Ministry authorities in Monrovia had announced that the President was slated to launche a major anti Malaria campaign on Thursday.
Just three weeks after being inaugurated, President George Manneh Weah has on Wednesday embarked on a series of official and private visits to two African countries and a European state.
An Executive Mansion press release says the Liberian leader begins his ten-day journey in Senegal on Wednesday for an official visit, which will last until Friday, February 16, 2018.
From Senegal, President Weah will be paying a four-day private visit to the North African country of Morocco where he will be from February 16-20.
Thereafter, the new Liberian leader is expected to go to France on an official visit, where he is expected to meet his French counterpart, President Emmanuel Macron from February 21, to February 23, 2018.
Shortly after his January 22, 2018 inauguration, former Liberian international football icon-turned politician attended the African Union summit of heads of state and governments in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Before winning the presidency last year, President Weah served as Senator of Montserrado County and represented
In his last position as Senator, Weah was noted as one of the most traveled lawmakers.
Besides representing Liberia at the ECOWAS parliament, he made numerous foreign private trips to Europe, the US and other parts of the world.
His predecessor, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won a record of making countless number of foreign trips.
Foreign presidential and top official trips have accounted for a staggering chunk of Liberia’s annual budget over the years.
But it’s not known how big will the CDC-led government’s foreign trips budget, when the next budget year be begins in June this year.
Already, a delegation of Liberian lawmakers are on a visit to South Africa
Meanwhile, the Executive Mansion says while President Weah is away from Liberia, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Nathaniel Farlo McGill will Chair the Cabinet in consultation with the Vice President and in telephone conversation with the President.