POLICE yesterday sealed off the PF secretariat and Embassy Park to prevent former president Edgar Lungu and his supporters from accessing the two premises. Lungu was scheduled to hold a press conference at the party secretariat and later proceed to the presidential burial site with party members to lay wreaths on his predecessor Michael Sata’s grave. But addressing the media, Tuesday, PF information and publicity chairperson Emmanuel Mwamba said the opposition political party had received information that police had surrounded the premises by 05:30 hours. “Our security at the party secretariat said that the police had surrounded the premises as early as 05:30 hours and we later received information that Embassy Park was equally sealed with heavily armed police officers...

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