from ARNOLD MULENGA in Lusaka, Zambia
Zambia Bureau
LUSAKA, (CAJ News) – FORMER Zambia president, Edgar Lungu, is to be buried in Johannesburg, South Africa on Wednesday afternoon.
His party, the Patriotic Front (PF), confirmed the development.
According to the programme provided by the former governing party, the funeral will be at the Cathedral of Christ the King in the Hillbrow area, starting at 11h00.
Procession to private burial will be at 13h30.
Lungu died on June 5, aged 68, in Pretoria, where he was receiving treatment.
His family and government wrangled over the repatriation and burial.
More than 20 PF Members of Parliament had travelled to South Africa by Tuesday.
On Tuesday, President Hakainde Hichilema met a delegation of the United Church of Zambia (UCZ), where the deadlock dominated the agenda.
“If President Lungu is not buried at the designated site, it is not for lack of trying on our part,” Hichilema said.
“He deserves to be laid to rest with dignity, military honours, and in his homeland where Zambians twice elected him to the highest office.”
Lungu was president from 2015 to 2021.
– CAJ News