GOVERNMENT has maintained that first Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda will be put to rest at the Presidential burial site on Wednesday. And Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Permanent Secretary Amos Malupenga says the public should disregard any information that is not coming from government or Dr Kaunda’s eldest son Colonel Panji Kaunda regarding the funeral. Recently, Dr Kaunda’s son Kaweche Kaunda said it was his father’s and family’s wish for him to be buried next to his wife Betty Kaunda at his farm in New Kasama, and that government had no mandate to decide where the nation’s founding father would be buried. But speaking to Diamond TV, Monday, Malupenga said government had the responsibility of speaking to the public...

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