Dallas City Mayor in hot soup for spending USD 40,000 during his summer trip to Tanzania

The Mayor of Dallas, Eric Johnson is in hot soup for allegedly spending over USD 40,000 during a trip he made to Tanzania in July 2025.

Reports from Texas reveal that the residents of Dallas are not happy with the way their tax money was spent by the mayor whose trip looked more like a personal summer holiday but at their expense.

The Mayor also flew Business class during his return trip from Dallas to Dar-es-salaam city.

The local media outlets in Texas claim that the obtained records show his Lordship spending two nights on the popular tourist island of Zanzibar.

Clearly having a ball, the Dallas Mayor also visited two luxury Safari camps, within the Serengeti National Park, inland where he enjoyed the Great Wildebeest migration safari driving.

“The fundamental reason for making a trip does stand up,” Texas residents were reported to tell the media.

The summer trip to Tanzania for the mayor and two staff members cost more than 40 thousand dollars.

Now the shylocks of Dallas are demanding their pounds of flesh from the controversial trip which turns out to be a ‘cruel summer,’ for the mayor.

However the Dallas Mayor’s office says private donors will foot the bill for at least part of that sum, spent on the more than week-long trip to Tanzania.

The office adds that Mayor Eric Johnson travelled into Tanzania to create a new sister City for Dallas.

The mayor signed a Sister City partnership with Dar-es-Salaam, which is the largest city in Tanzania.

Located along the Indian Ocean, Dar-es-salaam thus becomes Dallas’ first sister city in Africa.

But after the ceremony the Dallas Mayor’s entourage met local leaders and toured textile mills and cultural sites, but the delegation did not stop there. They enjoyed leisure tours of the Serengeti and Zanzibar.

The report from the mayor’s office in Dallas maintains that the trip was a critical step to building the relationship between the Texan City and Tanzania.

The report further points out that the Tanzanian government was responsible for picking up the hotels that hosted them and added that private donors will pick up at least part of the cost.

Dallas is a Northern city in the U.S. state of Texas, which is the ninth-most populous city in the United States and third-most populous city in Texas with more than 1.3 million residents at the 2020 census