The former president of Zambia will be buried in South Africa, tells the family

Former Zambia President Edgar Lungu family said that a series of South Africa will be buried in a special ceremony in connection with the funeral regulations.

On Thursday, President Hakainde Hijilema, Lungu family refused to allow his family to retreat from South Africa from South Africa. The body was placed on Sunday in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia.

The family now says that Lungu will be buried in Johannesburg, “Dignity and Peace” will be buried later.

For the first time, a former head of a country was buried in South Africa.

His will, Lungu, said he should not attend the funeral of the opponent for a long time.

The government and his family then agreed to be a state body before mentioning precisely arrangements.

“We want to announce the funeral of Favorite Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, which will be held here in South Africa in accordance with the wishes of a personal ceremony,” said Family Press Secretary Muebi Zulu said.

Mr. Zulu approached the South African government to “intervene” and the decision of the family and “this deep emotional period.”

At the address on Thursday, President Hichilema, Lungu’s former president, “The body belongs to the people of Zambia, and the body” should be buried in Zambia “in” full difference and no nation. “

However, due to the series, the immediate announcement of the mourning period, the country means “restore normal life.”

“The government did everything possible to deal with the family of our sixth president,” he said.

The national mourning period was first fled on June 8-14, but then fladiks, flags flying in semi-mast and radio stations.

President Hichilema and high-ranking officials were ready to receive the Lungu Coffin with full military honorary Honor.

However, Lungu’s family, which prevents the return of remains at the last moment, said the government agreed with the consent of the funeral plans.

Opposition patriotic front (PF), Lungu, until the death of his party, stopped with the family on the funeral plans.

“The government has become a solemn opportunity to be a political game,” PF said the President of his president. “This is not our attitude to the former head of state.”

Civil society teams, an urgent solution to the issue, with part of religious leaders, the stand-off “damaged the dignity of our country,” he said.

“We apply for a resolution that glorifies the memory of the former president while modesty, dialogue and the nation.” Emmanuel Chikoya, head of the Churches Council in Zambia.

Lungu since 2021 since 2021 since 2021 since 2015, he died this month was treated for a disease in South Africa.

As a head of state, Lungu after six years, 2021 defeated the election to the hijilee by a large margin. He took a step back from politics, but later returned to scramble.

The presidency had ambitions for Vie, but at the end of last year, the Constitutional Court served more than two terms permitted by law.

Despite the deprivation of the presidential election, he was very effective in the Zambian policy and did not criticize his success.