The burial of Zambia’s first ever President Kenneth Kaunda might not go ahead after his family went to court to block his interment at the presidential burial site in Lusaka.
This is similar to the drama of the late Zimbabwean ex-president Robert Mugabe’s burial.
Kaunda is due to be buried on Wednesday following a state memorial held last week at the city’s National Heroes Stadium.
However, some of his children and grandchildren have approached the High Court in Lusaka to stop the scheduled burial.
They want the court to allow them to bury Kaunda next to his wife Betty, who died in 2012, to fulfil his wishes.
In court documents dated Tuesday, one of the sons Kaweche, asked the High Court to declare “null and void” the government’s plan to bury Kaunda at the official Embassy Park site.
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