Late President Levy Mwanawasa’s body is scheduled to arrive in Lusaka from Paris, France tomorrow at 09:00 hours.
Secretary to the Cabinet Joshua Kanganja confirmed to ZANIS in statement this afternoon.
Government has however, indicated that only a limited number of people would be allowed access to the international Airport to ensure an orderly and dignified programme.
The rest of the mourners wishing to go the the airport, have been advised to line up along the road from the international airport to Mulungushi International Conference centre where the body would be taken to lie -in-state.
Government advised that the Acting President, Rupiah Banda, Chief Justice Enerst Sakala and Speaker of the National Assembly, Amusaa Mwanamwambwa would be allowed entry to the airport.
Others are the two former Presidents Dr Kennth Kaunda and Fredrick Chiluba, Fomer Vice Presidents and Cabinet ministers and deputies.
Government would also allow leaders of opposition political parties, MMD National Executive Committee members, representatives of the church mother bodies and members of the diplomatic corps to be part of the receiving party.
Close family members, the mayor of Lusaka, Members of Parliament, Permanent Secretaries, Lusaka province chiefs, Bank of Zambia Governor and two choir groups from the MMD would also have access to the airport.
Presidents of ZCTU, FFTUZ and directors of EFZ ZEC and FAZ chairman and his deputy as well as late President Mwanawasa’s pastor, Pastor Chanda of the Baptist Church would also be at the airport.
ZANIS/ENDS/SJK /AM
will see how this one will work knowing we have more kaponia attitude people in Lusaka than anywhere else. Have some self respect and pay tribute respectfly regards of your sexual orientation or sorry i mean regardless of the party you support
Y??..was LPM President for the well connected only?? ..Considering we will all be mourning him why can we not also go to the airport to meet his body??..it must be said that only in Africa do we see such nonsense…close the airport…close the main road when a dignatary is passing…y???
I have been trying to ship katundu ku Zed but my shipping company tells me there is an embago in Zed no cargo planes allowed. What is this kind of nonsens. Bushe twakulaly cabbage? Nani uwingeba cabbage he is too heavy… Open the airport we want to do business twalafwa na kapowe… ba kwindi mulala kwa chenama.
People like Mpombo in goverment is a none starter. We need people who can turn things around and worship the Authority. Even when the president is dead life goes on people. Please those doing business go on with your business. Why restrct the airport? Levys body will only be there (Airport) for not more then an 1hour.
They 4got to mention my name on people who will hv full access to the airport.
Sorry pa # 4 i meant And not worship the Authority
There you go! 21 days people.
number 6.there mean that during the time the body gets to the airport and until the body leaves the airport,access to the airport will be restrcted and thats the president who has died so business has to be kind of slow.
awe kwena. even in death he has closed the road and the airport. nway, it is his day. lets tantama along the road like my primary school days during the wamuyayaya and chisokone chisokone bane!
Lets get on with it we are getting tired. You are now annoying us Kanganja
Hope the wont inconvenience genuine travellers. Has coppernet stop live streaming of the major radio station in Zed, I have tried hard this past while to listen in to no avail. Can someone in Lsk give them a nudge.
Mwativutisa navimalilo va LPM.I feel sori 4 pipo who wont get full salaries this month coz of this funeral.motorcade 2mro will b bigger than whn LPM was alive.i hope it wont b anotha circus 2mro FTJ brot 2 many kaponyas frm Ndola
Most of those who will be at the airport did not even vote for LPM. We are the ones who put Levy in State House and today they are denying us the right to be at the airport to meet our electee!! Mwapya, nomba, Nshaka voteko, am joining the Apathy Club.
Hey zing chong,this news shocks me. Is it true abt not geting ful salaries. This freaks me off coz i might not even get mine….
Thank God it is not the M25! lol
#11 Muntuza coppernet is very much live. I’m able to catch it on the net. It’s just radio Phoenix that normally gives a bit of a problem. But the others are cool I guess i.e radio 4, 1, QFM, Ichengelo, and Yatsan. Keep on trying my brother or is it sister. Good luck.
I want to watch the arrival wen it does happen at 09:00. Any site I can tune into mwebantu pliiiiiiiiz tuloshe bonse. It will be about 17:00 in Melbourne ala njebeniko which site bane. Napapata
#17 Alliyah, Unfortunately there is no such site. The arrival will probably be beamed on ZNBC only and sadly ZNBC T.V is not streamed on the net. I hope coppernet does something in future. All the same we know you’re with us during this trying period of mourning. Keep strong.
#16 thanks my man. Muntuza can only be man. I am now tuned in and feeling gr8.
Hey LT, why dont you conduct an online poll on the possible candidates for Presidency like zambiaonline are doing. But what I would like to see, is a more interatctive polling systems that encompasses many spheres of political life e.g. leadership qualities, economic acumen, spiritual aspect etc and done on a points scale for each category. Well something like that LT and lets see how we go with that.
Name calling in the press will not do coz the chaps calling names are after jobs. There is an element of selfishness in it. We know how it pans out pa Zed.
Thanks constable at #18, I feel so much better. Keep the peace we are just visitors here, Zambia is our home.
The time is now that all Zambians should awake from their deep slumber of ignorance, lets vote HH, young, healthy,intelligent, successful and rich.
We do not need dead man walking(Sata) in plot 1, nor do we want poor and ignorant(RB) who will end up like bus conductor(Chiluba), by plundering with this money hungly cabinet we have.Neither do we want the clueless(Godfrey Miyanda)he will lose track of the good economical direction that the Cabbege but hard working(LPM) left us in.Nor do we want the I know it all(Magande) who will not be able to listen to advise as he thinks that he know better than anybody else, this will reduce investor confidence in Zambia.
Lets all vote HH.
The list of candidates so far put forward is uninspiring.
Sata is sick,
Godfrey Miyanda looks like he has no clue,
RB is not popular in his new party,
Magande is a Mr Know-it-all loud mouth
Others are simply not easy to sell…
Oh waite God has given us HH.
BEN KANGWA HELP US WITH THAT ZANBC LIVE TV VIA INTERNET…WAT HAPPEND TO THAT LINK..WE WANNA WATCH WE ARE 15,0000 MILES AWAY!!!
ZNBC ia available on DSTV for those in Africa. Channel 136
Mwebantu ninshi Zed Tv dint hav foresyt ati we oso want to watch the burial..twakwatafwe ifima BBC na CNN elo news kuli bena its troops pulling out of Georgia!!!! Hasn’t any1 worked on dat link yet…pilizi!!!!!!
Guys has this arrival of LPM’s body got something to do with the delay in my shipment by DHL.have been tracking my parcel but it seems its stack in Johannesburg SA.pilizi mwebantu am kwebo yafwile yakonkanyapo!
It is 17:16 in Melbourne, have you all gone to line up great east road? Tell us whats going on kaili takuli ama link. We are relying on you guys.
Zambians, its the first time since our independence that we are experiencing such a calamity as a Nation. Therefore, let us not condemn every short-fall but provide advice where we can. If you asked KK or Chiluba if they had put up any contigent measures as regards to what is going on now, they will not give you a concrete answer.
Let us learn from LPM’s demise and plan well for the future. I only hope that we are taking note of all these lapses. The remaining question to be answered is, WHERE IS THE RESERVED BURIAL SITE FOR OUR HEADS OF STATE ? Supposing the next sitting PREZDO dies, what will happen ?
Chiluba wrote: “Mr President, We in Zambia feel ROBBED(RELIVED IS MORE LIKE IT) at a time SADC, Africa and the world look for leaders who will help Africa through its many problems. As the shock waves of your death reach every part of our country,(WE CELEBRATE FREEDOOM) we can’t but cry FOUL as this death is not only sudden but very UNkind(KIND FOR YOU). It is a cruel reality.”(YOU ARE GONE I AM STILL HERE)
tHE BRUCKETS ARE MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS OF WHAT HE FTJ I THINK REALLY THINKS AND FEELS ABOUT THE LATES DEATH. AND HIS FINAL WORDS My wife, Regina and I say farewell. Zambia has been robbed,” HE SEEMS TO LIKE THE WORD ROBBED PRETTY MUCH
fweba bangile we are ok just next to the plane. The first lady is no even looking sad. Yashani iyi bane?
No 24,, what about those that are not in Africa?
#25, 27 You won’t be able to watch ZNBC if you’re outside Africa. But you can still log in to Q FM on coppernet. They’re covering the happenings live. At least that will keep you abreast with what’s happening.
Nomba iwe #30 Ponyax, what do you mean ba first lady is not even looking sad? Chilishani we mulumendo – tekanya during this period.
#32 what Ponyax is trying to say is, as per Zambian tradition, first lady is expected to be chief mourner unlike putting on a face which is contrary. Of course you know Ponyax, he puts a smile on our faces.
UYU MUNTU PNOYAX HE SEEMS TO BE ALL OVER THE PLACE EHH.. NEXT TO THE PLANE? LMAO.. U MUST BE THE CHIEF EXCUTIVE OFFICER TO THE KAPONYAS C.E.O.P…..SO ATI NEXT WEEK HE WILL BE IN THE MOTORCADE WITH THE FIRST LADY AS THEY GO TO ALL PROVINCES!!! ULETEKANYA WEBO!!!!
MWE BANTU PLZ JUST GO TO COPPERNET.ZM AND DOWNLOAD ALL THE RADIO STATION AND IF YOU HAVE A ITUNES ON YO PC THEY WILL BE SAVED THERE PLAIN AND SIMPLE…!!!YASHUPA SHANI KANSHI..
uhh, why FAZ amongst the select few to go t airport??