Mr. President, Let Him Rest
By Linda Banks
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison under brutal apartheid, yet he walked out with dignity, chose peace over vengeance, and extended his hand to those who had oppressed him. That’s true leadership. That’s true power. And today, he’s legacy is narrated in lecture rooms around the world.
President Hakainde Hichilema, your former political rival Edgar Lungu is dead. It will be two months in the mortuary by the next hearing, two months of open wound for the widow and the children. Two months of stressful legal wrangling. Two months of pain and indignity for a grieving family who simply want to lay their loved one to rest. Why can’t you just let them be? You are wasting so much of tax payer’s money in an attempt to retrieve a corpse , yet you neglect the breathing.
Is this about justice or vengeance? because us the people want the family to have timely closure, to begin to properly grieve.
Even in death, you’re holding on to a grudge. Is it fear? Insecurity? Concern that the opposition might use the burial to send a message? Let them. Messages fade. But history remembers character.
You won the election. You hold the power. But leadership isn’t about power , it’s about principle. And from leaders across Africa to Europe and beyond, whispers are growing louder. They say your actions are petty, vindictive, and deeply disappointing. You have made history, you are the first in the entire Africa to have done this…. What a legacy.
You speak of democracy, but you are freezing the body of a dead man. How vindictive must one be to continue punishing someone who can no longer speak for himself?
This isn’t just about Edgar. It’s about who we are ,and who we are becoming. Please, Mr President. Withdraw the petition. Let the man be buried with dignity. Let the family mourn in peace. Let Zambia rise above bitterness.
In the end, history will not remember the battles we won but how we treated those we defeated.
#LetHimRest
#DignityInDeath
#LeadershipIsForgiveness
Seems very nice to make noise from someone else’s house. Dont these people have jobs? Or politics in these countries they live? Or they are too dense to participate in those politics that the only person they think they can bully is the vulnerable “kid” in the front of the class?
Well said. We are tired of all this and need to move on. Let the family be and do as they please. What’s the big deal?!!
She can not influence anyone and no one can listen to her, because she doesn’t make sense in whatever and whenever she writes. She was probably one of Lungu’s slay queens.
Linda you are off tangent my dear. Your narrow personal views do not represent the view of majority Zambians who the president represents. To be honest HH cannot be bothered where the family would want to bury their beloved however there is the interest of 20M Zambians which HH shoulders. As a leader he was elected by majority Zambians to pursue their interests ahead of his own. So ba Linda don’t impose your personal myopic view on the presidency.
This prostitute Linda Banks is quite irritating. Is it Hakainde preventing the burial of Edgar Lungu or the widow and the politicians. Hakainde wants to give Lungu a state funeral like any other ex president. Why do you twist facts and say he doesn’t want him buried. For Christ’s sake, he defeated Edgar Lungu by 1 million votes, so how can he fear anything from a corpse he defeated when it was alive.
You wl be the ones blaming him if he does not give Lungu a decent burial. Just concentrate on TV Bakwetu if you don’t have anything anything sensible to do. You’re have gone totally off the rails ; please take your stupidity somewhere else. Arsewhore!