Africa’s top 5 highest-paid presidents have a combined income of over USD 1.7 million annually.

Hii ni kulingana na makala katika Business Insider, ambayo inadai kwamba Paul Biya, rais wa Cameroon, anapata kwa mbali zaidi ya dola 620,000 kila mwaka.

Mfalme Mohammed IV wa Morocco, Cyril Ramaphosa wa Afrika Kusini, Uhuru Kenyatta wa Kenya na Yoweni Museveni wa Uganda wanaunda orodha ya juu 5.

Wateule wa Afrika wanaolipwa vizuri zaidi

  1. Paul Biya of Cameroon – USD 620,976
  2. King Mohammed IV of Morocco – USD 488,604
  3. Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa – USD 223,500
  4. Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya – USD 192,200
  5. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda – USD 183,216

Makala inasema yafuatayo kuhusu wapataji wa juu 3:

Paul Biya ni mwanasiasa kutoka Cameroon ambaye amehudumu kama rais wa nchi hiyo tangu 6 Novemba 1982. Ni rais wa pili aliyekaa muda mrefu zaidi barani Afrika, na mkuu wa nchi mwenye umri mkubwa zaidi barani Afrika.

Ufalme wake Mfalme Hassan IV ndiye Mfalme wa sasa wa Morocco. Alipanda kwenye kiti cha enzi cha nchi hiyo mwaka 1999 wakati baba yake, Mfalme Hassan II, alifariki.

Kulingana na Forbes, ikulu yake ina gharama za uendeshaji za kila siku za USD 960,000 zinazolipwa na jimbo la Morocco kama sehemu ya bajeti ya kila mwaka ya Dirham 2,576, hasa kutokana na gharama za nje kama vile wafanyakazi, nguo na ukarabati wa magari.

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa ni mfanyabiashara na mwanasiasa wa Afrika Kusini anayehudumu kama rais wa tano wa nchi hiyo tangu 2018 na wa Bunge la Taifa tangu 2017.

He is widely recognised as one of South Africa’s richest people, with a fortune of more than USD 450 million and has been featured in financial magazines such as Forbes Africa and Bloomberg.