THE SUSPENSION OF ECL’S BENEFITS FOR ENGAGING IN ACTIVE POLITICS WAS LIFTED UPON HIS DEATH – STATE SUBMITS
July 3rd, 2025
PRETORIA – The Zambian Government has filed an amended notice of motion in the Pretoria High Court, South Africa, seeking the repatriation and burial of former President Edgar Lungu in Zambia.
In its submission, the government argues that the late President Lungu did not specify in his will how or where he wished to be buried.
It further contends that, as a beneficiary under the Former Presidents’ Benefits Act, it should be presumed that he intended to be given a state funeral in accordance with Zambian customs and traditions.
The state maintains that Mr. Lungu’s acceptance of benefits under the Act should be interpreted as an expression of his burial wishes.
Additionally, the government argues that Mr. Lungu was never disqualified from receiving those benefits, as outlined in Section 5(2) of the Act. Instead, it explains that his entitlement was merely suspended when he re-entered active politics, and that suspension ceased upon his death.
As a result, the state asserts that it regained the right to provide a state funeral, fully funded and conducted in line with national customs and traditions.
President Lungu died on June 5, 2025, in South Africa.
Following a dispute between the family and the Zambian state, the family opted to bury him in South Africa. However, on June 25, 2025, the Pretoria High Court halted the burial pending the outcome of the legal proceedings.
Hahahaha. Yakosa bola.
All this drama for the fear of occupying the hole that he himself dug for his enemy.
ECL will be buried in RSA, and brought back home when there is a new president next year.
“He that digs holes for others, shall himself be buried in one of them”. -Edith Nawakwi, RIP.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Serpent (his own words)
1. got to power via noise and disruption,
2. Ruled in turmoil with caderism, tribalism, machets, killings, horror
3. Now dead, causing confusions, hatred…you name it
His soul will never rest.
Was this the so called Plan B ?
But why did the lawmakers decide to create such a law where if a former President upon losing an election will have his benefits withdrawn if he continues practicing active politics? If I may be allowed to speculate or give my opinion, the reason was to stop the retiree President from taking advantage of the benefits to use the benefits to campaign vigorously to his advantage to defeat the other contenders.Or to keep for him until he finishes the last term of office if he was to win the election and be given the benefits at the end.But the question is what would happen if former Presidents were given all their benefits even without stopping active politics? Could the answer be, that the former Presidents would use their benefits to do un meaningful checks and balances to disturb the sitting President from performing his duties well.The answer must be obvious. Former Presidents would fight the incumbents to the bitter end.The civil servants would get confused on where to pay their allegiance and it would cause to have parallel government.The country would be un governable.The law makers who came with an idea of withdrawing benefits and other details of presidential benefits were in order for the sake of smooth running of the country by the one in power at the time.
Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu was denied permission to go for his medicals even before he entered active politics.
He was ‘ bundled’ out of a Plane when he was invited for a conference in South Korea way before he came from retirement.
The 6th President was called from retirement in Late October , 2023 by the Mingalatoon’s misadventures at the UPND’s PF Illegal Conference and follow up Events at the Registrar of Societies and the National Assembly.
He was still virtually a Prisoner, just confined to the 4 walls of his house from the time he stopped being President.
Ask yourself why, if that statement is factual. There is a lot of criminality around the name Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Why did his daughter Tasila withdraw the defamation case against News Diggers in the Mukula case that the other two lost? News diggers didnt defane her. The facts they reported were truuthful and so she pulled out. His daughter Chiyeso agreed with the state that she forfeit assets that she could not explain, she aquired. The matter of Daliso is still in court. The wife gave $US 400,000 to a niece for safe keeping (as reported) and used state machinery to coerce her niece into giving up cars and a property to recover this money. Can she explain where the money came from? The 15 or so luxury flats built at the state lodge area of Lusaka. With Tasila it doesnt end there. The chipata farm 600ha in an area that was set aside as game or forestry. How was it de gazetted? Where did she get the money to buy and develop the farm into the state when the LEA moved in to investigate.
This leads on to suggest the source of the money. One openly said it was the father. From his income in government this is not plausible.
Lungu is reported as a not sucessful lawyer over the years. And there is no public record to point at his achievements in the practice under Masiye & Co, but what we read and unclear the suggested woes with the Law Association of Zambia about the misappropriation of funds. So tell me is it a case
1. Abuse of office.
2. Money laundering where he was paid or said “well wishers” donated as we saw in the imprisoned Minister, homes and money was given to Lungu for some favour/favours?
3. Theft of state assets and the betrayal of public trust by Lungu, when he seems to have stashed enough money to call Presidentia benefits “crumbs”.
4. Bishop Alick Banda returned a Toyota Hilux to Zambia Revenue authortity after it was reported in court that a third party had aquired the car and it be given to the Bishop. When asked its reported that the donation was from Edgar Lungu. The Bishop abruptly returned the car. Just that act speaks volumes about a man.
The horty demeanor of Lungu in his public statements indicts Lungu to unexplained wealth and the balooning of the assets declared, and would have led to LEAs to investigate.
While you want to suggest some form of vindictiveness. We the citizens want the same answers the President was shocked to learn when he entered office. Who what why how. The nations balance sheet was bad but worse than assumed. And a group of individual seems to have aquired so much money in the time they were in office.
Yes, the Mpundu trust under Banda was investigated but there rational answers given. Even his son had to run to RSA and one would ask if the investigations ended and what was the conclusion? Public resources were used and the public has the right to know.
So what is so special about the Lungus? The optics are bad and we need answers. If I as a citizen are subject to laws why shouldnt the Lungus?
I maybe speculating as why he was not allowed but just these facts are enough to indict the man. If they were genuine and he is not the instigator of persons who have evaded the course of justice. Why did he not explain what Plan B was? Look at Sudan. Where is the Lungu family today? How many more people would have left Zambia while the seeds of plan B raged?
Sometimes sit down and ask yourself what you really stand for? A bunch of self serving people or the average Joe trying to live his life in Zambia in the manner life has dealt him/her? What right do you have to sway that? And we all have right….
Stop spreading lies. It was later learnt that there was no such conference in Korea.
This would further show that if this man could lie about this, what more the Passports? His false name admission? And unless he sat down and explain the truth, the fact that his suggestions of a medical trip was just him play up the tale. Remember the nursery tale of the “Boy that cried wolf”? This is what happens when you lie. Something unbecoming of a person of his stature.
Lets be critical but objective in our criticism.
ECL is an influencer in life and death. Love him or hate him.
I still remember KK coming back to active politics after retiring and handing over to Kebby Musokotwane. But when he came back to take over and become actively involved politically, he was treated the same and at one time, he was nearly killed in Kabwe where a live bullet grazed his forehead or skull. No former president who continues or comes back to active politics continues to enjoy his retirement benefits and Lungu can’t be an exception.