 Your Excellency thank you for your time. Yes sir. What is your message? What would your message be to to to the country? On the life of President Rupea Buzanibanda All the statements have been made Obviously, he was not an angel. He had his own feelings. Just like all of us But if we learn to dialogue honestly with one another as we have experienced during the days of mourning probably we can get somewhere as a country Dialogue, genuine dialogue between all of us. Those who were in government before and those who are In now, but what we are seeing is hypocrisy Where people say good things and they do bad things and if we can expand the hypocrisy from our lives And just say it as it is between now and going into the future. So that's what we are learning from the Abana's legacy People have said good things, maybe good things become part of us. Thank you so much. Thank you Right Thank you very much for an opportunity to make a comment and funeral and burial of Fourth Republican president First of all want to thank Desermion people for once again rising to the occasion to mourn our fourth Republican president president to be a bander in a manner that is Befeating of a person that has provided a service to this country for all the years That we know of him having dedicated his life to the serving not only of this country, but the continent and the globe I'm compelled to make a comment In relation to the fundamental truth that the former president president editor Galungu Said yesterday which has attracted some kind of debate I Think the advice and the sentiment of the former head of state yesterday was on point As a people We should never be afraid To confront each other with truth The level of hypocrisy across the board. I think it's pathetic Historically as a people We have always only celebrated people when they die you have for example President Kowanda Who at the time that he left office? He was verified called a thief his family children called thieves Until in recent times That's when we began to have positive sentiments Coming in appreciation of his service to the country, but look at the outpouring you know tributes and State positive statements that were made at the time that he died The second republican president dr. Fredic Chilua When he left office He was called a thief Verified persecuted Even at a point of him being acquitted to his death. He was still being called a thief, but at a time that he was being Buried everybody was up Showering praises how that he was a father of democracy and the one that laid the foundation for economic growth that we've experienced as a country One hour sir, it was the same Now we're talking about President up here Banda, but look at President Michael Santa to the same We condemn one another condemn leaders and only to come and celebrate them in their death that is a a High level of hypocrisy Today we have a former head of state in Edgar Tagalog as we speak now President long is being verified. He's being a you know Persecuted his family his children. Everybody's calling him a thief Some would never did anything to this country even when we know that infrastructure development that we are Celebrated as a country to have achieved and attend was achieved under his watch Miss I kind of each day my today is trotting the whole corners of this country commissioning with his ministers Projects that were left by the patriotic front government that is never appreciated They never even have the courtesy of referring to those achievements. They pretend as if they are the ones who have achieved Now what makes even the the fundamental truth of hypocrisy real Is to have a head of state for example at showgrounds during the funeral of the official funeral of President up here Banda Suggest that the reason why opposition leaders and others are participating in the funeral is because they have created a Conducing environment for that kind of thing to happen, which is very unfortunate That statement is far from the truth. The truth is that now we have in opposition Leaders who are civil and they're able to distinguish between national events and indeed political events a Fee of that nature is a national event And I'm aware that the reason why today we can congregate one locality and be able to mourn President up here Banda is because the opposition have chosen to rise above petty politics and not Politics with everything and be able to attend such national events Misaka in the hre minor position With his up and the they politicized everything including funerals And today he can't turn around and such such trying to abuse the civility of his colleagues and suggest that is because you have Created a new and anybody in the environment if you remember whenever he chose to attend any event particularly funerals President in the other position leaders were usually given the front row as a way of appreciating that your stakeholders in development What has he done so far whether it was at the the show grounds whether it is in at cathedral or indeed at a bar or site opposition leaders by design not by default by design the tags for their sitting arrangement was far At a back the sitting of president Edgar Chagallung on the front row is because he's a former head of state and today he cannot be used as An example of embracing the opposition because president lungo saved and is no longer in office In the patriotic front to have an acting president in given ruin If you wanted to demonstrate to zambians and the visitors that is embracing even the opposition Why was he not party party or indeed acknowledging such leaders and giving them their rightful place in such an occasion? So hypocrisy is at the center of how we conduct ourselves as zambians We never celebrate the input of people. We condemn them Whether it is a president ministers We have verified even when you did your best to uplift the lives of there, you know the Zambian people So all I can say is that I think it's important as ambience reflect on that statement It was fundamental and it is since squarely In what is happening and we know that is a saying that the guilty always afraid if they shoe fits wear it Thank you very much