Bury Lungu before thinking of succeeding him, Fr Muma tells PF presidential hopefuls
CATHOLIC PRIEST Father Elias Muma says the Patriotic Front-PF will only workout their leadership succession bid if they first bury late president Edgar Lungu.
And Fr Muma says the late president Edgar Lungu is a national property and not a PF property.
The Catholic priest says there cannot be effective succession if the person you want to succeed remains unburied.
In the homily monitored by TV Yatu, the St Mbaaga — Kitwe’s Kawama Catholic Parish priest wonders what succession tradition the PF is using in going in high gear to campaign and aspire to succeed Lungu when basic African tradition requires that a deceased is buried before people can talk about succeeding them.
“I would urge those that are concerned, because I am also particularly concerned. You cannot have something hanging on us and now people are slowly forgetting about it; it is still there so let us work it out,” Fr Muma says.
He says the late president is a property for all Zambia’s adding that there is need to close the mourning chapter by burying him first before people can start eying the position he held in the party.
©️ TV Yatu November 21, 2025.
Failure to bury our late sixth President early and with dignity is a very bad sign of immorality.Some people are there with serious political ambitions to take over his position before he is put to rest.And we are there conducting businesses as normal yet as a country we have a task on our heads to bury our late former head of state.It’s a pity to be in this situation honestly.
We have some person who has been championing the dignified burial of ECL while trying by all means to ascend to the throne left by ECL even before he is buried, what dignity is there in trying to replace a person whom you claim to respect even before he is put to rest. Is that the new definition of dignity. This is as good as being a chief mourner while at the same time eyeing the widow, what kind of dignity is that. My advice to the dignified champion is for him to work of putting the man he purports to respect very much to rest before he can even think of replacing him, that is dignity.
Wise advice and I wish PF took heed of the advice and did the needful. The unnecessary delay burying ECL in Zambia is disrespectful and an insult to the Zambian citizens. ECL was the president of the whole country and not only PF members, for heaven’s sake.
So there’s division even among Catholic Priests. Bishop Alick Banda is of another view, he thinks president Lungu largely belongs to the family as if he was never a president of a Republic anywhere in the world. Wonders shall never end