Response to Dr. Nevers Mumba
By Thandiwe Ketiš Ngoma
Dr. Nevers Mumba, Stop Defending HH for the Wrong Reasons
Dr. Nevers Mumba, with due respect, your statement is misplaced and selectively blind to the real issue at hand. This is not about whether President Hakainde Hichilema uses “spiritual powers” or not. It is not about your personal knowledge of his faith, his work ethic, or his convictions. Those are irrelevant to the matter before us.
The real issue is respect for the wishes of the bereaved family. The Lungu family has made it abundantly clear that they do not want President Hichilema to preside over or be present at the funeral of their loved one. That decision is theirs alone to make. It does not require justification, it does not require debate, and it certainly does not require public lectures from you about his character.
If you truly believe in dignity, compassion, and Christian values as you claim, then you should be advising President Hichilema to honour the family’s wishes, not to bulldoze his way into a funeral where his presence is clearly not welcome. A funeral is not a political stage. It is a sacred, private moment for mourning and closure.
Your argument about past presidents and Embassy Park misses the point entirely. Whether other leaders were buried there or not has nothing to do with the current situation. We are talking about the fundamental principle of consent and respect for grieving relatives.
If President Hichilema’s intentions are truly as pure as you say, then he should show humility by stepping back. Sometimes the greatest show of leadership is not insisting on doing what you think is right, but respecting the boundaries and feelings of others, even when you disagree.
Dr. Mumba, instead of defending HH for the wrong reasons, please use your influence to counsel him to step aside from this funeral and let the Lungu family mourn in peace. Anything less is not duty; it is arrogance.
We have been teaching these prostitutes that there is no state funeral without chief of the Armed Forces.Its protocol.What you are saying in other countries is treason.Whether you hate HH or you dislike him he has s duty to represent Zambians at this funeral.Its not about family’s emotions and how they feel and how you feel yourself ,they don’t have a legal or moral right to isolate the head of state.Thats undermining the office of the president and its unconstitutional.In a normal country prostitutes like you should be jailed for incitement
Whom ever wrote this rubbish does not understand the meaning of the work respect. Let’s not hide the criminality of the Lungu family behind words like respect and dignity.
KK, our founding father, is buried at Embassy Park. Against KK’s documented wishes to be buried next to his wife. Where exactly is the loss of respect in this? Where is the loss of dignity? If anything, there is more respect and dignity for the Kaunda family because KK is buried where he is. All our former presidents are buried here.
The dead will now be having challenges of having died.People will now be throwing allegations carelessly for political and personal gain.”Ana siya akamba ati” then people will remain in endless debates and courts and adjournment and appeal.Burial delayed.If our great grand fathers were to work up from the dead and come to visit us.They would get astounded, astonished, flabagusted, amazed, perplexed, stunned, dumfounded, bewildered and aghasted.What kind of humans have we left this earth with.They have also disturbed the climate.They may consider coming back to continue living in a better civilized way.Indeed they were better civilized.
Does this response explain why PF lost and are facing a mountain to climb? I ask this coz any adult and mature human being, more so, public figure ought to be accountable for her words, actions and otherwise if those around her are to take her seriously..
If this is way PF were taking matters and wish to continue with don’t care or know it all attitude, then am sorry kaya…