The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has refused to recognise the tourism brand ambassador award granted to Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader, Walter Magaya, by Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs minister Mirriam Chikukwa had last month saying the award was granted unprocedurally.
ZTA spokesperson, Sugar Chagonda told NewsDay early this week that his organisation had the sole mandate of appointing tourism ambassadors and had not sanctioned Magaya’s appointment. Said Chagonda:
Magaya was never appointed as tourism ambassador and he was never given that status. ZTA is the custodian of tourism and the appointer of brand ambassadors. We were surprised upon hearing that Magaya had been appointed the brand ambassador when we, the tourism authority, had nothing to do with it and we just want to set the record straight. We are not saying he is not worthy of being an ambassador, but the truth of the matter is he was not appointed.
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