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HARD-UP taxpayers are footing the bill for an African leader’s five-star London trip, we can reveal.
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud enjoyed business-class flights, a chauffeur-driven car and rooms at the posh Dorchester hotel — at UK expense.
Five of his ministers and 14 flunkeys were flown to Britain and put up to attend a conference which saw millions more in aid handed to the war-torn country.



PM David Cameron joined other nations to back a £50million pot for Somalia at the gathering in Lancaster House last week.
Britain already provides £80million a year in aid. President Mohamud, 57, and his entourage had four nights at the Dorchester — where rooms start at £318 a night and the most expensive suite at £9,318 a night.

If the delegation stayed in the cheapest rooms, the hotel bill would have hit £25,440. Air fares are another £24,158. And a chauffeur-driven limo costs £400 a day — making the estimated bill at least £50,798. The Taxpayers’ Alliance said: “It’s ridiculous.”
The Foreign Office refused to reveal the cost but said the conference was “vital”.


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They are mad

qof wadankeesa jooka fi'ana! islantan eega sidan happy o tahay. islamaha qorbahana wa wada depressed looking!

Famo, he is the President of my country and he is here to milk the system so we can build our country back home, that's not a waste of taxpayers money, what is a waste of taxpayers money is how the govt uses our money to invest in the Arms race, the military fighting illegal invasions in Afghan & co and the institutionalised racism in the justice system.

For him to be put up in a decent hotel is only befitting, do you want him to kip at someones manky council flat like the rest of us?

Yolo Baby

Rest of us?...............speak for your damn self.

they are living it large whiles the people who they are suppose to represent are dying in staggering numbers every day due to starvation, disease and insecurity, I wish I was at Lancaster house I would throw red paint on this moda foka.

Adali wrote:they are living it large whiles the people who they are suppose to represent are dying in staggering numbers every day due to starvation, disease and insecurity, I wish I was at Lancaster house I would throw red paint on this moda foka.

Let's be fair, as the head of a nation the guy deserves to be taken care of by those that have invited him to their country.

lets be fair, to the voiceless people back home.

Adali wrote:lets be fair, to the voiceless people back home.

So where exactly do you propose Somali gov delegations stay whilst on diplomatic trips...Budget Inns?

Colonel wrote:

Adali wrote:they are living it large whiles the people who they are suppose to represent are dying in staggering numbers every day due to starvation, disease and insecurity, I wish I was at Lancaster house I would throw red paint on this moda foka.

Let's be fair, as the head of a nation the guy deserves to be taken care of by those that have invited him to their country.

sax its just too unproffessional to expect someone you are hosting as one of your guests to foot the bills