DON’T CELEBRATE, IT’S SHAMEFUL FOR UPND TO GRAB LUNGU’S BODY FROM HIS FAMILY – MSONI
THERE is nothing to celebrate about the judgment ordering the repatriation of the remains of former president Edgar Lungu by government for burial in Zambia, Nason Msoni has said.
Commenting on the judgment delivered by the South African High Court in Pretoria yesterday, Msoni, the All People’s Congress President, said those celebrating the victory should take a back seat and introspect on the long-term implications of the State’s action.
He said what the United Party for National Development and President Hakainde Hichilema, in particular, had done was grab a dead body from a grieving family using force.
The judge ordered Lungu’s family to hand over his body to the Zambian government for repatriation and burial through a state funeral.
“This is unheard of. What has happened is grabbing a dead body from a grieving family, and this calls for serious introspection on those scheming all this. This conduct will leave more pain on the country,” Msoni said.
He urged the Church to take its healing role, warning more divisions would be experienced if nothing was done to undo the damage government had done to the nation.
“I have seen on various UPND blogs the celebrations, the continued insults, mockery and all of the former first family. You can tell deep-rooted hatred and bitterness against the Lungu family from UPND. These are the people who have been pushing for the return of the remains of Lungu. These are the people who persecuted Lungu when he was still alive, and now they are celebrating his persecution into the grave. They have managed to grab a dead body using the courts, and they want to preside over a man they hated the most. This is shameful, it is embarrassing,” he said.
He said Lungu would go into the history of the country as the most hated and abused former president till his death.
Msoni has since challenged Hichilema to respect the wishes of the family not to preside over the funeral of the former president.
“Today is a dark day for the Lungu family and the people of Zambia who believed in peace, unity and norms. I wish to remind those in leadership that the scar they have exhumed and left behind will be difficult to manage or cure. No matter what happens, this is bleeding; the funeral of the Lungus has just begun. Their pain is too deep to ignore. I hope those around the President are advising him properly. He needs reflection, self-introspection. The country is bleeding,” Msoni said.
The court also ordered the South African Funeral Home, Two Mountains Limited, to surrender Lungu’s mortal remains to the Zambian government for repatriation and burial relegating the family t mere spectators.
This comes after two months of court battles, public tension and a suspended state of mourning.
The Mast
Hakainde should be sued for not taking residence in State House like all other Presidents. What is so special about him?
What is so special about you and who are you? Even given another life will still remain an Idiot very far behind HH…HH is the president and you what do you have?Talking about impossibilities out of Hatred and Jealous, are you not ashamed loser?
Ba Kombanguist, why are you wasting time issuing empty threats? If you think you have a good case against the President for not moving into State House, go ahead and sue.
If he has breached the law by staying out of State House, you think PF would have spared him?
Muzakamba muzalema. You tried Privatization you failed. You tried Treason you failed. What you now have to say. Zero. Mukamba him keeps on scoring. Before you know it he will hv won elections in 2026. And yours then remains talk of Empty heads.
Ba Msoni, what do you mean ” unheard of”? What about the time PF grabbed KK’s body from his family & buried him at embassy Park? You never heard of that one, sir?
Some of the buffoons don’t understand and realize that our nation is governed by laws. Today some buffoons think that it’s UPND, that had sued the incorrigible Lungu family. It’s the government that has to follow the laws
They don’t even realize that not following the laws by people in government can even be treasonable. The government has done the best and no one reasonable can condemn the government for what it has done. PF government, led by lungu himself intervened in the burial of kk, and reasonable people never condemned PF and Lungu, and never called it as a grab as put it by the buffoon. It’s law at work. No sacred zambian presidential cows shall be buried outside Zambia
Forgive him, dont judge him using the body his wearing. Mostly these large personalities are worn not by intelligence but by mental incapacitation, some level of insanity. So dont expect anything reasonable for a fat premature boy like him. He has no capability of mirroring himself, east is right when facing north, west is too right when facing south. So a mixture of northerners and easterners will always breed confusion, making it very conducive for laze soul to shout nonsense the loudest. Honestly if you listen to mmembe and listen to court proceedings, with all those references made, acknowledgement by their lawyer is there surely any ground to over turn that judgement.
We can forgive this man. He is trying to vent his chest which is clogged with bitterness arising from his failure to get a job in the UPND government.
ba Msoni ficala
wht did PF do to KK and his family.
You have forgotten because you are CHIKALA
LUNGU’s family should be ashamed of the death and destruction they brought to us Zambians.
Lungu was shot dead in SA on a drug deal, that’s why no one is allowed to view his rotting corpse