WHAT is happening around late president Edgar Lungu’s remains is no longer funny. It has now become a national circus. For months, Zambians have watched, listened, speculated, argued and grieved through a funeral process that has refused to end. A former Head of State died in June 2025, yet nearly a year later, the country is still trapped in confusion over where his body is, who has lawful custody, and what happens next. That this ugly standoff has stretched this long is already painful enough. But the events of yesterday, have made the situation even more unbearable because the nation was confronted with two sharply conflicting narratives in one night: one from the Zambian government, another from the family spokesperson....