FIRST of all, it is sad that we are being forced to discuss a fallen leader who, over eight months after his demise, still has not been buried. This impasse regarding the burial of former president Edgar Lungu is difficult to imagine in a country that prides itself on Ubuntu and respect for the dead. But it is what it is. And because it is what it is, we are now treated to public exchanges over the man he was, the death he died and the legacy he left behind. In the words of Alliance faction secretary general Chris Zumani Zimba, Mr Lungu died a sad man because the Patriotic Front was not given back to him and that the...

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