President Rupiah Banda has declared today Thursday 26th November, 2009, as a day of national morning in honour of late former Commerce and Industry Minister Otema Sy Musuka who died on Sunday at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka.
Secretary to Cabinet Joshua Kanganja announced the development in a statement to ZANIS in Lusaka last evening.
Dr. Kanganja said all flags will fly at half mast and activities of entertainment nature should be postponed or cancelled during the national morning period which will run from 06:00hrs to 18:00hrs.
The Secretary to Cabinet also disclosed that the burial for the late Ambassador Musuku will take place today at the Old Leopards Hill Memorial Park in after a church service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and that mourners should be seated by 09:20 hours.
The late Mr. Musuku also served as Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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Condolensces to the nation & the breaved family. When our time is up, we all have to answer the final call.
Didn`t know or hear about him. Talk about being detached! But, MHSRIEP.
Sorry for the family. The man was our inspiration when we were growing up.
Wh the hell was musuku?
Unknown the general also died by not talk about it from the government
I did know him anyway however after doing research this what I find out:
Appointed 10 April 1992
Otema Sy Musuka, as Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations until 1994
Sad story really. About 5 weeks ago Pastor Walker announced in church that Musuka was being posted to Brazil to work in foreign service. The beauty about it at the time was that his lovely wife is actually from Brazil. So they were going to move to her country. Indeed they did move and he went and passed away there a few weeks later. I had never seen or heard of the man until that day in church, but unlike me I was really touvhed by his death.
Zedan33 your comment is not entirely true. The person Ps Walker and the church bade farewell to was Gerald Wakumelo who was put to rest yesterday. Mr Musuka is Chungu’s dad…since you spoke about Ps Walker I bet you know who Chungu is.