A
shocking scandal has rocked the political life of South Korean
President, Park Geun-hye after it was discovered that her office bought
over 300 viagra pills while visiting Kenya.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been criticized after it
was discovered that her office was found to have purchased over 300
hundred viagra pills during her visit to Kenya in May this year.
The allegations were first made by a top opposition leader in South Korea and later confirmed by the President’s aides.
In defending herself, the presidency justified the purchase of the
360 blue pills, claiming that they were meant to treat altitude sickness
for presidential aides and employees on the South Korean leader’s trips
to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, whose capitals are thousands of metres
above sea level.
A Spokesman from the Blue House (the president’s formal residence
equivalent to Kenya’s State House) assured that none of the pills had
been used during the historic visit.
According to The Guardian, the Viagra revelation comes as Park grapples with a massive political scandal.
The president is now bracing for an impeachment push by opposition
parties and some members of her own Saenuri party amid allegations that
she let a secretive confidante manipulate government affairs and amass
an illicit fortune, a scandal critics say undermines the country’s
democracy.
On Wednesday South Korean prosecutors raided offices of the Samsung
Group and the state pension fund as the electronics giant was dragged
further into the scandal engulfing Park.
The raid comes as Samsung faces allegations it bribed Park’s
confidant Choi Soon-Sil to win state approval for a controversial merger
it sought in 2015.
Prosecutors visited the group’s Future Strategy Office, which oversees key business decisions, the Yonhap news agency reported.
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