{"id":82567,"date":"2026-04-24T20:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/edgar-lungus-body-opened-says-family-spokesman"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:11:25","slug":"edgar-lungus-body-opened-says-family-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/edgar-lungus-body-opened-says-family-spokesman","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Lungu&#8217;s Body Opened Says Family Spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>THE Late former president Edgar Lungu\u2019s family has taken back possession of the late president Edgar Lungu\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n<p>And family spokesman, Makebi Zulu who appeared on EMV last night and seemed disturbed after learning that the Government of the Republic of Zambia yesterday reportedly subjected ECL\u2019s remains to a postmortem from 08:30, in the morning to about 14:00 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Makebi says this has been done in the absence of the Lungu family and that no family member consented government\u2019s alleged actions on their beloved relative\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman has shared that the late president\u2019s body will be taken in the state the Zambian government has put it.<\/p>\n<p>He says the body will now be moved to a morgue of the family\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. THE Late former president Edgar Lungu\u2019s family has taken back possession of the late president Edgar Lungu\u2019s remains. And family spokesman, Makebi Zulu who appeared on EMV last night and seemed disturbed after learning that the Government of the Republic of Zambia yesterday reportedly subjected ECL\u2019s remains to a postmortem from 08:30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-82567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edgar Lungu&#039;s Body Opened Says Family Spokesman - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/edgar-lungus-body-opened-says-family-spokesman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edgar Lungu&#039;s Body Opened Says Family Spokesman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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