Former President of Zambia Edgar Lungu said the funeral arrangements would be buried in South Africa after a consecutive year with the government.
Late on Thursday, President Hakinde Hichilema reduced the period of the national mourning, refusing to allow Lunga’s family to send her body back as planned from South Africa. His funeral was scheduled for Sunday in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia.
The family now states that Lungu will be published in Johannesburg in “dignity and peace”.
This is the first time that the former nation of the former nation in South Africa is buried.
Like his Ich WILL, Langu said his long -standing rival Hichilema should not attend his funeral.
The government and their family later admitted that the state and his family would then hold a funeral before the relationships were broken about the exact systems.
“We would like to announce that our beloved Dr Edgar Chagva Lungu’s funeral and the tomb will be held here in South Africa, according to the family’s Ich HES.”
Mr. Julu thanked the South African government for “not interfering in this deep emotional period” and respecting the family’s decision and desire.
In his speech on Thursday, President Hichilema said, “Jambia belongs to the nation of the Zambia” and his corpse should be buried with full honors in Zambia, and not in any other country. “
However, because of the line, he announced an immediate end to a mourning period, saying that the country needs to “resume normal life.”
“The government has done everything possible to engage with the family of the sixth president who departed,” he said.
The National Mourning Period was initially held from June 8 to 14 but was later extended from June 23, while the flags played serious music at half-mat and radio stations.
President Hichilema and senior officials were ready to receive Lungu’s coffin with full military honors on Wednesday.
However, Langu’s family blocked the sending of his remains at the last moment, saying that the government had canceled its agreement on the funeral plans.
The party’s patriotic front (PF), Lungu, led the death, standing with the family about the funeral plans.
“The government has made a serious situation a political game,” said PF Acting President Lubinda. “It’s not how we treat the head of the former nation.”
Groups of civil society have called for an emergency decision on the issue, and a part of religious leaders is said to be “hurt the dignity of our country.”
“We will appeal to the decision to honor the memory of the former president when uniting humility, dialogue and the nation,” said Emmanuel Chikoya, head of the Jambian Council of Churches.
Langu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died in South Africa earlier this month, where he was being treated for an undisclosed illness.
Six years after the head of the nation, Langu lost the 2021 election to Hichilema by a huge margin. He backed out of politics but then returned to the arena.
He was back with the ambitions of contesting the presidency but the Constitutional Court prevented him from running away at the end of last year, ruling that he had already served a maximum of two words allowed by law.
Despite the disqualification from the presidential election, he was heavily influenced by Zambian politics and was not criticized for his successor.
