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EU officials 'essential' Kenya trip costing taxpayer £700,000 - safari included

A BEVY of 136 European Union (EU) officials are spending nearly €1million on a trip to far-flung Kenya - which includes a visit to a health facility and a helicopter safari ride.

By ALIX CULBERTSON

00:00, Fri, Dec 9, 2016 | UPDATED: 10:46, Fri, Dec 9, 2016

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MEPs will get the chance to go on safari in Kenya

The team, including 78 MEPs and 31 interpreters, are to jet off for five-days to Nairobi next Saturday to take part in the African Caribbean Pacific-European UnionJoint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU), which includes 78 African, Pacific and Caribbean states alongside the EU.

The European Parliament's financial statement for the trip to a country where more than half the population lives below the breadline, reveals the total budget is £735,354 with £193,042 going towards interpreters, documents seen by Politico reveal.

Budgets for trips are estimated according to the maximum number of possible participants, with 50 MEPs so far having signed up.

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