By Amb Emmanuel Mwamba
Buried in Exile: How Zambia Failed Lungu — And Itself
What should have been a moment of national mourning has been transformed into a dark spectacle of political pettiness and moral failure. President Edgar Lungu — once Zambia’s head of state — now faces his final indignity: buried not in the soil he served, but in foreign land. President Lungu, who died in South Africa, will now be buried there — not by choice, but by the failure of his own nation to grant him rest at home.
Let that sink in.
A Zambian son. A former president. A man who — no matter your view of his politics — deserved the basic dignity of being laid to rest in his homeland. Denied. Not by law, not by tradition, but by the cold hand of politics wielded at a family’s hour of deepest grief.
This is no longer about Lungu. This is about what Zambia has become. A country where the dead cannot find peace because the living refuse to rise above grudges. A country where a family’s sorrow is trampled beneath the boots of state control. There was no need — no moral justification — to impose the will of government over a grieving family’s wishes. There was only a chance to show decency — and that chance was squandered.
And what of President Hakainde Hichilema?
A man of professed deep Christian values — where were those values when it mattered most? Where was the mercy, the humility, the grace that faith demands at moments like these? I expected him to be guided by his beliefs. Instead, the nation witnessed a failure of compassion at the highest level.
South Africa gains a body. Zambia buries its conscience
This is the legacy of this moment:
If even the dead can’t find peace in your politics, what peace can the living hope for?
History will not forget. And neither will the hearts broken by this needless cruelty.
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PF and Mwamba’s Nostalgie de la boue.
PF and his family failed him not Zambia.
How can a person like Emmanuel Mwamba, that is known by many as the one that murdered Chiluba be so hypocritical. This murderer, is now trying to twist the story of the Lungus as victims when they are the ones that stopped their beloved one from being buried in Zambia. They have stolen so much that they started looking for property to buy instead of grieving.
Stop blaming HH that was abused by Edgar Lungu so much hut refused to revenge when he came into office. Evil people like Emanuel Mwamba should not be given a chance to divide the nation. He thinks he should always be in leadership and cause confusion when he is not appointed. They destroyed the economy and is now on the verge of claiming asylum. He will certainly try to use Lungu’s death for his asylum application.
Exactly what Mwamba is looking for to help support his asylum claims that are at best unfounded. He is one very stupid man. How Christian was ECL to instruct his family that when I die, this one person in a 20M plus people shouldn’t come near my dead body. Who does that..? Mwamba kwatako amano. You will never twist the information in this social media era. You have tried to jump on the bandwagon because this funeral was the plan B the late President was insinuating. It is sad very sad to have people like ECL and Mwamba in the same country.
Pres. HH is quiet and just observing what you disgruntled PFools are doing. The family cannot dictate to the govt of the day what they should and shouldn’t do. You have zero respect for the current administration under Pres. HH hence the impasse. What are you people hiding..? In Zambia, ECL is not the first former president to die so why is his death so important and complicated…?
After the dust has settled we shall see. Your hatred for one person will never take you anywhere. Scrap this Zambia is a Christian nation tag. It’s a scam.
Emmanuel, you are not “Ambassador”!
You are “Former Ambassador”.
That is all I can respond.
The rest I will respond when you grow up