FORMER LAWMAKER PROPOSES ECL FUNERAL PROGRAM BE DELEGATED TO THE VICE PRESIDENT
Former Member of Parliament for Kasenengwa, Sensio Banda is proposing President Hakainde Hichilema formally delegate the responsibility of presiding over the funeral of late former President Edgar Lungu to the Vice President Mutale Nalumango.
Mr. Banda says this gesture would honour the Lungu family’s wishes while preserving the dignity and protocol of a state funeral.
The call comes amid rising tensions between the government and the Lungu family, heightened by recent remarks from State Counsel M. Kabesha during a ZNBC interview.
Mr. Banda argues that Mr. Kabesha’s defensive tone and suggestion that the government might proceed with the burial without the family’s presence have deepened divisions and cast doubt on the prospects for a respectful and unified farewell.
The Lungu family has been persistent in its demand that President Hichilema not be directly involved in the funeral arrangements, citing longstanding political tensions
However, Mr. Banda believes delegating the funeral duties to the Vice President would demonstrate Mr. Hichilema’s statesmanship and placing national unity and reconciliation above political differences.
Mr. Banda stresses that this proposal is not an admission of fault but a cordial act of national healing, one that respects state funeral protocols while acknowledging the personal and emotional sensitivities involved.
This man doesnt learn nor understand where we are right now or the issues that are in court.
Again he raises his useless points of view and wants to suggest that circumventing the functional offices is the solution yet its not.
The Secretary to the Cabinet is the right office to deal with these issues. If there people leaking information to the Lungu family or those outside the scope of the norm. There are ways to deal with those people administratively. You Mr. Banda as I suggested last time show a certain kind of naiveity in what government is, the laws that can work when you served as a law maker. Which is a very sad display from who wants to use the title of “Former Member of Parliament”.
No wonder they voted you out you very stupid former mp
The secretary to the cabinet handles such matters. Educate yowaself about the civil service before talking rubbish.
Why would an entire president bother himself about the details of a funeral program when those paid to do such things are there?
Those suggesting the president should delegate his presiding role in the state funeral don’t seem to understand that what they are suggesting is equivalent assurping power of the presidency. They are indirectly saying they have the power to tell president what do, which sets a very dangerous path for our nation. Yes, you may not like the person in state house today but don’t forget that if this is tolerated, it may come back to bite our as nation in the future. In life, people should know that what is done today, there always a time to reap, and we may not like what we reap in the future, if we are not careful.
Senso is just dull. Very shallow chap. The kind of people that find a system and change it for no reason but just so they can feel that they are doing something. These are the kind of leaders that have messed up institution, public service and local government and the reason we have such a poor work culture in these institutions. Productivity and function is not of the essence, its all about status.
Ba Banda, your submission sounds good but it is baseless because to me the President and his vice are one and the same.You are just exhibiting hate for one individual which is unacceptable.Hichilema is not running government alone for him to be singled out as bad.This thinking is extremely childish, segregative, hateful, misleading thoughts, naive, hollow, un Zambian, fake and blindfolding with intent to decampaign and cause hate.Somebody who was an MP must demonstrate the spirit of one Zambia and one people.And try to be fair in your judgement.
You don’t break protocols to please a wrong situation, lest a bad precedent is set. The government should just do the right thing, capwa.