Lunte Member of Parliament writes:::
ECL – I AM SORRY FOR NOT BEING THERE. FAREWELL!
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The president (His Excellency, Dr. Edgar Chagwa LUNGU) that president I sincerely loved.
Dinis and I send our sincere and heartfelt condolences to our mother – Madam Esther Lungu, the entire family and friends.
Our thoughts and our prayers are with you throughout this difficult period. May God make it easier through his wondrous ways.
The president is dead.
His death has embarrassed me. I am totally ashamed of myself.
I am ashamed because I never stood up for him as firmly as I thought I loved him.
Otherwise I could have made a much more meaningful contribution to his later life than I actually did.
See; he died in a foreign land.
When he died, he was alone.
He died in foreign hands.
Served by the benevolence of foreign well wishers. This is hurtful for me.
And I was not there.
None of us was there.
Not even a government agent was there – It s embarrassing to me.
Today, speaking hard, long and louder would be in vain. Given this great failure to show love and care when it was needed.
ECL won’t hear any of my words as things stand.
For everything he meant to me and those he caused me to serve, only a little was told to him. He will never appreciate how much I and them cared.
For his faith, his confidence, his training and mentorship – I certainly should have shown more appreciation to him – even if it just meant to be there when it was necessary.
That would have left me feeling a lot happier than I do now.
It is like I took his life and presence for granted, as though I controlled fate.
But ECL won’t hear me anymore regardless. It is finished. He’s translated. He’s put on a new body; one without weakness. He’s in perfect union with his maker. He is resting in glory.
It was as if I never perceived the injustices he suffered by those who needed to protect his human rights.
As if I never saw the humiliation and I never heard the abominable insults hauled at him for no cause – that indignity of a society shaped by toxic causes.
Yet I stood up not for him as I should. This hurts me to the core of my being. It’s excruciatingly hard for me.
It is a now I see him, and now I see him no more tale.
Translated across a permanent divide – where no sorrows remain.
That connection irreversibly broken by a much higher figure operating in a realm carnally unknown. Resting in the shadows of the wings of his vision giver.
There is no booing in glory.
There are no insults in glory.
There is no medical requirements in glory.
There is no travel authority requirements in glory.
There is no gate cutting in glory.
There are not DEC call outs in glory.
There is no political retribution in glory.
There is no hypocrisy in glory.
May it be well with your soul Mr. President. May you rest in eternal glory. May your glorified life be more fulfilling than what you ever aspired for here on earth.
I thank God for giving me an opportunity to share moments of kindness with him.
I wish I learned early enough what it means to appreciate a chief servant while it is called day. Only then would I have done more than I did in this life God gave; but gone too soon.
Rest In Eternal Peace – ECL
Restoring EVERYTHING PATRIOTIC.
MK08.06.2025
What you have written says a lot about the way this man lived his life. I hope what you have written is not true.Why did he die alone? Why? Where was his wife and children? This was a private visit we are told. It raises a lit of questions for a man of his status to die alone in a foreign land, let alone die a lonely man. How can one go to the theatre alone with the next of kin? Yes, this is very private and the family knows the truth. It is very strange too.One wonders how they were living as a family. There are family lessons to be learnt here.
This behaviour by PF is no different from the way the conduct themselves and real life and politics. They are the only ones who know the right way of doing things. Lungu retired and didn’t want to come back into active politics, he couldn’t handle them and they forced him back to abuse him financially and physically by putting him on champaign trails while knowing he was unwell . Even in his death they can’t hold back to reflect and respect all other stakeholders. Remember the old woman who cursed Lubinda and the previous administration? It doesn’t matter what they do things will only get worse, until the entire old administration gets out of politics and a new and reformed administration totally divorced from the current leadership take over.