NEWS DIGGERS TOO SMALL TO STOP THE WIND OF CHANGE
By Zambian Whistleblower
The Diggers editorial titled “They had no plan to bury Lungu, they needed his body for campaign” is nothing more than desperate spin.
It deliberately twists a clear campaign promise into an accusation of heartless political gamesmanship, while ignoring the real cause of the burial impasse.
Even Charles Mulyokela would tell Diggers that this situation would never have reached this stage if Dictator Hakainde Hichilema had simply stayed away from the funeral.
The core issue has always been Dictator Hichilema’s stubborn insistence on presiding over the funeral of his political rival.
With cruelty and clear political intent, the Diggers editorial works overtime to distort Brian Mundubile’s words.
Mundubile never said the body would be kept unburied until they win the election. The editorial deliberately misreads him.
What Mundubile actually said is this: If elected President after 13 August, he and Makebi Zulu will ensure the late President Edgar Lungu receives a dignified burial.
This is not a threat to withhold the body. It is a straightforward promise that, under their administration, the late former Head of State will be given the national honour and respectful send-off that the current government has so far failed to facilitate.
The Lungu family, through their lawyer Makebi Zulu, already won the legal right in South Africa to decide the terms of the burial.
The Zambian government publicly stated it would not appeal that decision. The family is therefore free to choose.
Mundubile is simply assuring Zambians that when they take power, they will work with the family to deliver a burial that truly honours the former president and not the rushed, politically charged process the Dictator Hichilema’s administration has been pushing.
Diggers mocks Makebi Zulu for saying the family is still consulting on the final burial place. But consulting responsibly after winning a hard-fought court case is exactly what any decent family would do.
The family has every right to decide whether the burial takes place in Zambia or South Africa, and under what conditions.
Diggers wants us to believe that winning the court case should have automatically produced an immediate burial date. Why?
Because the Dictator Hichilema’s government wants the body returned on its own terms, terms the family has already rejected through the courts.
The family is not “stranded.” They are simply exercising the legal right the South African court granted them.
The real political weapon in this matter is Dictator Hichilema’s attempt to control the funeral.
The editorial pretends the opposition invented the impasse for votes. The truth is far simpler: The Lungu family does not trust the current administration to handle the funeral with the respect it deserves.
That is why they went to court in South Africa and won the right to stop the Zambian government from unilaterally taking the body and presiding over the proceedings.
When the family’s own lawyer, Makebi Zulu, together with the presidential candidate running alongside him, says they will ensure a dignified burial once in power, they are directly addressing the root cause of the delay, the toxic political hostility created by Dictator Hichilema, who has refused to step aside from the funeral process.
Calling this “using the body for campaign” is rich, coming from a media house that has spent months trying to use the late President’s death to convince Zambians that only one man can “stabilise” the country.
Every campaign promise comes with the condition “if elected.” Diggers knows this. Asking “what happens to the body if NRPUP loses?” is not serious analysis, it is a cheap gotcha question.
If the opposition loses, the family will still retain the legal rights they already won in court. They can bury the late President wherever and however they choose. The promise from Mundubile and Zulu is simply that, under their government, the process will be handled with the dignity a former Head of State deserves without political score-settling.
Diggers is guilty of exactly what it accuses the opposition of doing. The editorial accuses Mundubile and Zulu of turning the death into “campaign capital,” yet the entire piece is an attempt to weaponise the same death to paint the opposition as heartless and unserious.
It even takes a cheap shot at Mundubile’s speaking style while reluctantly admitting that Makebi Zulu “constructs a more intelligent argument.”
This is cruel journalism. Is this the only way Diggers can do damage control for a government that has failed to resolve a sensitive national issue?
Why allow to be used to shift blame onto the opposition and the grieving family is it about money or just hate for the family and those who oppose Dictator Hichilema ?
The bottom line is clear:
Mundubile and Makebi Zulu’s position is consistent and principled. The Lungu family has the legal and moral right to decide how and where their husband and father is buried.
They have chosen, so far, not to rush into a burial that does not feel dignified to them. The opposition has promised that, when they form the next government, they will facilitate a burial worthy of a former President of Zambia.
This is not cruelty. This is respect for the family’s wishes and a commitment to proper national reconciliation something Dictator Hichilema has completely failed to deliver.
News Diggers can continue trying to paint the opposition as two boys playing politics with a body. It will not work.
The wind of change is blowing across Zambia, and no amount of editorial spin is big enough to stop it. https://zambianwhistleblower.com/
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NEWS DIGGERS TOO SMALL TO STOP THE WIND OF CHANGE
