*Laura Miti writes* ✍️
Here is a question to the Lungu family. Had he been the one in office, what would the PF have done to the opposition, and a family of a former President, behaving like you have done since President Lungu died?
What would have cadres done to citizens, during this funeral? What would driving on our roads have been like??
Simply, why, given how President Lungu treated others, do you think you should be allowed your behaviour?
OK, let’s interrogate your main complaint – that EL was mistreated.
Your problem is that he was not allowed to go abroad to hospital. OK.
Should we now, in order to put everything in perspective, list what he did to his rival and to ordinary citizens?
1. Do you remember how teargas was introduced into a safe room his rival was hiding in, in the middle of the night? How the house was trashed and workers tortured to say where their boss was?
2. What about the cell full of feacal matter he had to stay in, in solitary confinement?
3. Then the scrambling on a roof top of a radio station, to escape PF thugs baying for his blood?
4. And those thugs making life impossible for citizens at buststops and markets, without President Lungu EVER telling them to stop.
5. The worst, because it happened to ordinary citizens, is PF thugs attacking innocent mourners at a funeral, with no consequences.
6. A girl being undressed at a youth day rally full of leaders, watching in silence.
In short, the EL presidency was not kind to either citizens or rivals. It was nasty but you, nicely cloistered in that presidency, probably would not know.
All that, however, should have been water under the bridge, when EL died. The nation would have liked to give him a dignified burial. That’s what Zambia does.
Then you his family arose臘♀️. Sadly forcing a funeral as unpalatable and disorderly as much of his rule was. You have blatantly refused to allow the expected sombre environment.
Ninkani yachisoni.
Anyway, what should happen now? Indefinite national mourning until government allows you to have private and secret access to the body and coffin after it arrives?
What do you want to do with that body, kansi?? It can’t be to give it respects because, gosh, you have disrespected it and the man.
You ask as if it is your dad’s body. Chibeleshi icho iwe!
Imwe ba So called Doctor. This is why government said lets handle the body from the undertaker to Lusaka. They refused.
Now you want the laws and procedures to be circumvented?
If you have ever travelled or just escourted a person at the airport. Do you say your goodbyes on the runway?
Stop wanting to insist on things and processes that you will not appreciate. Ask and folks will explain. This dogma attitude and deflection of issues “if it was your dad”. This is why a chief was flown to south africa; and in traditional funerals most of these issues are not dealt with immediate children and wives. Their role during the funeral is to mourn. So stop making emotional outbursts when we all are disgusted by the unreasonable insistances that the family are making.
Very well put.
Lungu should be buried in an unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere
Laura should be asking why Hakainde wants to be near the body. She should be asking why the agreed program was not adhered to. Why did the state decide to make their own program after so many people had negotiated the program that was agreed to by the family?
Why are UPND and birthright citizens so hurt by ECL not coming back home? What witchcraft rituals did they have planned?
Pwaaaaahahahahohohohehehe mow mow mow.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Sesheka gunshoting at HH you never mentioned that one madam.The man believed in confusion no wonder even in his death confusions are still there.i moved away from this confused funeral.
Let the snake eater continue haunting the nation
Am without any doubt that there is something (huge cash or high value small items) that they wanted to transport in Lungu coffin/ Stomach and take out at home in Chifwema. Now that the government wanted a private arrangement at KK, the ECL family thought izapolika bine. I mean there is no way they can sacrifice the cash that has gone on that chartered plane just to avoid an arrangement at the airport where they would still have family representation during whatever it is that was going to happen, uuum I can read through the lines. Or maybe plan B is in motion? I mean what if plan B is ECL resurrecting next year during nomination? I mean it’s not wrong at this time to think that ECL is still alive. I have no facts that he is died. Eishi ECL family pls your arrangements are disturbing the country not HH alone if that is what you think.
Well spoken Laura. In Africa we are so respectful of the dead that even demagogues are accorded that undeserved honour in their death. Now the family, riding on that respect, is abusing their dead relative in their manipulative behaviour. We are now losing even the sympathy and patience we had for them because of such conduct. Very very sad. The nation needs to move on.
Well spoken Laura. This funeral is now boring and stressful. From what we know the President of Zambia Dr HH is as clean as KKs handkerchief.
The family should temporarily bury the mortal remains outside Zambia so that he is not denied of the respect and dignity he was denied of whilst alive. That way, those who hated ECL in life can continue hating him even in his death while those who loved him in life can continue loving him even in his death. You cannot have a situation where GRZ tries to exclude those who loved ECL by refusing them from receiving his mortal remains at the KKIA and allows those who loathed him in life to receive his mortal remains in death. How can this hypocrisy be expected to unite the country ?
If you really have a phd, please go and get a refund because clearly the university that awarded it to you failed lamentably. Your reasoning is far below a grade twelve to be honest because even a grade five pupil knows that the head of state is the president, how then can he be excluded if he is the one hosting the procession? Who is going to host the guests who will come, which may include heads of state from other countries? Won’t that show disrespect to the guests if the host is not there? Please try to use your head to think once in a while. For your own information, these procession are not done out of love or hate for someone but the set guidelines which need to be followed, is that too hard for you to understand?
Straight 4ward, these people kaya what they think, I don’t if they think HH is interested to attend this funeral, I mean who would be interested to worst his time on the person who tormented him? HH is just fulfilling his duties as the head of state. He is the head of 20,000,000 and I doubt if this 20million is all family of ECL. They are really being childish now, coz it’s only children who give demands without spending a thought if the parents can afford or not