FORMER secretary to cabinet Leslie Mbula says the decision by former president Edgar Lungu’s family to bury the former president in South Africa is very sad and disappointing. Mbula was part of the envoys earlier appointed by President Hakainde Hichilema to mediate in state funeral talks with the Edgar Lungu family. In an interview, Saturday, Mbula said the family has let the people of Zambia down because they would have loved to bury their former president in his country, as he was national property. “Mr Lungu was not an ordinary person. The family gave Mr Lungu to the nation and the nation looked after Mr Lungu and made him what he became from the resources of the nation. They elected...

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