UKA ON GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO FORCE INSPECTION OF BODY
Some things should never be done. Just when you thought that the government cannot not sink any lower over the issue of the body and burial of Late President Edgar Chagwa LUNGU, the UPND have managed to go lower than ground zero.
The letter from the lawyers of President Hakainde and his government is astonishing. It shows an unthinkable obsession with the body of the Late Sixth President Edgar Lungu.
Reading the letter from the lawyers it is like it’s from another realm and not this world.
If the South African Court is going to rule that the body be handed over to the Zambian Government, President Hakainde will then have the legal right to do whatever he and his colleagues crave to do with the body.
The Court clearly stated in its Orders dated the 25th and 26th June 2025 that the LUNGU family would have discretion as to who could access to or view the body of the Late President Lungu. The court did not say they must give access to everyone who requests to see or inspect the body.
Equally perplexing is how they propose to go about “identifying and authenticating the identity of the body.” Are they to extract DNA or blood samples? Which body parts do they want in their quest to “authenticating the identity of the body”?
Who are these representatives they say can “authenticate and identify” the body and what are their backgrounds and qualifications?
Paragraph 4 of President Hakainde’s lawyer’s letter is scarily mysterious when it says, “It is a necessary and respectful step to bring certainty to a matter of public and personal importance.” The public are generally not being haunted with an insatiable thirst to see and identify the body. This therefore leaves the question as to whom is being referred to as placing “personal importance” to inspect, see, access and authenticate the identity of the body.
If the body is not accessed and seen by these individuals at this stage, what harm will befall them? Why can they not wait for the Court’s determination of the main matter?
There is a saying that some people have a tendency of sticking their foot into it; President Hakainde and his government over this matter of or Late President’s body, seem to only be changing feet.
SAKWIBA Sikota SC.
UKA CHAIRMAN
30 July 2025
When someone dies, body viewing is a standing and undisputed protocol to allow friends and family of the deceased to bid farewell and register closure.
The desperation of this clique of thieves to hide a dead body reeks of criminal undertones.
Just tell them. Looks like they lack wisdom.
Maybe Lungu is not dead
Sakwiba Sikota is a third party to this issue and therefore intruding. His is to keep his own political brand current in the minds of Zambians and not to intrude in the battle between the Lungu family and the state where his voice carries no weight.
It’s in the interest of us Zambians not UPND.
Confirmation of death by presentation of the Corpse as verification is Paramount, especially in this case of former head of State ECL.
Too much hanky-panky is going and surrounding this death by the family of ECL and PF party.
Major questions are this,
1, What if ECL is alive and well but just a gimmick of running away from the long arm of the Law.
2, What if its a strategy to tarnish the current Government for the up coming elections in 2026, their plan B as they said it.
3, What if ECL is really dead but was murdered to hid the huge stash of Monies in foreign Countries.
There are just too many “ifs” that the Government of Zambia and the People of Zambia need to know the truth and have answers.
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I think it is high time such people begin to be made accountable for their actions. How else does he think we will verify this issue.
Is he publicly stating that he has verified the identity of the body. If this is so let it be on record so that if things turn out to be untrue he can answer for the cover up as well. Let all these politicians who believe as an absolute truth come out and publicly declare this.
What we have heard so far is people distancing themselves from any confirmation and just talking about irrelevant things that don’t make any sense.
Am shocked to get this from Sakwiba Sikota, I really think it’s not him but propagandists in Pf. Otherwise if it’s him then aaaah
fact it is not just the verification of the body. This behaviour by the Lungu family is attracting more and more interest, more and more curiosity. See, curiosity isn’t easy to brush aside. Until you see, it doesn’t go away. It’s natural. But what else does this curiosity come with? It comes with suspicion of any form. In this case, we can suspect maybe in that casket, it’s not just the corpse. There cud be other things. The Lungu family is not straight. Lungu himself talked of Plan B. The coffin cud be just a part of Plan B. Yes we can suspect so. Also the PF are busy accusing the HH that he wants the coffin and the body for purpose of Bwanga, witchcraft. But this cud be just a distraction. The truth cud be that there cud be Bwanga in the casket, targeted at someone here in Zambia, and they want it to cross to Zambia disguised as a casket contains Lungu’s body. Or even someone else’s body. You see, these are all possibilities when you are dealing with high level crooks. With all these suspicions, the only way for the Lungu family to clear themselves is to open the basket for us to see what is inside there. Simple.the more they say no, the bigger our curiosity, and the more they can’t handle it any other way but to open the casket.
The Zambian government is very correct in wanting to see the body. How do they know that the body there is ECL?
Sakwiba Sikota SC, UKA CHAIRMAN! What?! UKA is dead. And with its demise, we do not know who you are and what you represent. Fight for yourself.
Sakwiba Sikota used to have a special place amongst the people of repute in Zambia! Then he joined politics probably to gain access to quick riches! It’s then that he lost me and his esteem in my journal of the prominent started slipping! He no longer makes sense to upholding the rule of law and being a very senior state counsel one would have thought he’d be in the forefront helping the Zambian people understand and appreciate interpretation of the laws as they apply to matters of national interest! Sadly himan nature makes us overrate certain people!
At his age with gray hair and a law degree, this is the superstitious junk he is vomiting. Abakulu bamo masaka. I think the demon of their idol is haunting these creatures. Lomba mwayamba kufunta