”DON’T HOLD ELECTIONS BEFORE LUNGU IS BURIED” – BISHOP MAMBO URGES GOVT
Chikondi Foundation President John Mambo has proposed that Zambia should not proceed with this year’s general elections if the late former President Edgar Lungu has not yet been buried.
Speaking to PTV2 News, Bishop Mambo has questioned how the country could proceed with national elections while the body of a former president remains in a foreign mortuary.
He has appealed to Hakainde Hichilema, political leaders, and all stakeholders to prioritise the burial of the former head of state, whose body he said has remained in a mortuary in South Africa, for more than nine months following his death.
Bishop Mambo has described the situation as un-Zambian, stressing that Mr. Lungu was a Zambian citizen and a former head of state who deserves to be buried in his home country.
By Favourite Chisi/Toliwe Banda
Ptv2Z
Ba mudala, tell that to the Lungu family and their lawyer Makebi. What does the constitution say about postponing the elections?
Election dates are written in the constitution. Lungu’s burial date is at the discretion of Esther and family.
We follow the country what the law says not opion.
Our good Bishop has misdirected himself. The date for holding general and Presidential elections is cast in the Constitution whilst the matter of ECL burial is in the Courts of law. And quite frankly, people have moved on regarding Lungu issue. It is the family holding the key.
The Bishop is playing the minds of opposition parties because it’s the language they can easily get.
Sometimes one wonders, what are these people made of? Or where did they come from?
Come on ba bishop, even if you are desperate, of all activities that have happened since ba Lungu death in june 2025, why elections?
Stop smoking strange stuff, let’s move on. Death of one person cannot hold us to ransome.
Hallucinations, constitution is silent on that