Guinea Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo describes Chilima describe the death of SKC as a great loss

Guinea President His Excellency Umaro Sissoco Embalo, on Friday met Malawi President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe to console President of the Republic of Malawi, over the loss of late Right Honourable Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima and eight others, who died in a tragic plane crash in Chikangawa Forest in Mzimba on June 10th.

Briefing the media soon after the meeting Guinea Bissau President Umaro Sissoco said Malawi has lost a hard working person.

“Vice President Chilima was a hard working person and hard good will for the country,” he said.

President Embalo jetted into the country earlier in the day on an official one day visit and went straight into a closed door meeting with President Chakwera at Kamuzu Palace, in Lilongwe.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nancy Tembo, said the meeting between the two leaders presented an opportunity for the visiting leader on behalf of Guinea-Bissauans sympathise with President Chakwera and Malawi at large, over the unfortunate events of June 10th.

Since the plane crashed, several nations have been rendering condolences to Malawi through their emissaries right from the venue of the funeral ceremony and other diplomatic channels.

The two leaders have also used the meeting to discuss other pertinent mutual issues that cement ties between the two nations in realization of development aspirations of both populations.