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Henry Mussa said.
Mussa said on Sunday president wa Mutharika’s body will lie in state at the New State House in Lilongwe for family and friends to pay their last respects.
On Monday and Tuesday, the body will lie in state at Parliament Building for the public to pay their last respects, before being taken to Mzuzu where it will lie in state at the Mzuzu State Lodge on Wednesday and Thursday.
The body will be flown to Blantyre the same Thursday where from Thursday to Saturday it will lie in state at Sanjika Palace for people in the Southern and Eastern Regions to view.
The programme also showed president wa Mutharika’s body will lie in state on Sunday at Ndata Farm in Thyolo where Mutharika’s friends, relatives and people around Ndata, Mutharika’s personal farm, will view the body before burial on Monday, April 23. Mussa said invitations had been sent to various Heads of States and Government, the African Union and the Commonwealth.
Meanwhile, Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda has said the late Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika should be remembered for the industrious development efforts he made for the continent, the Post of Zambia reported on Thursday.
Kaunda, who ruled Zambia for 27 years, said after signing the book of condolences at the Malawian High Commission in Lusaka, the Zambia’s capital, that Mutharika, who died after a cardiac arrest last week, laboured to ensure that there is development on the continent.
“In many ways he (Mutharika) laboured for this continent. Let all his success be the remembrance of this period,” he was quoted as saying.
Kaunda, who is among a few remaining African leaders that fought for the continent’s independence, said people should pray that Malawi remains peaceful even in this trying moment and that the new President Joyce Banda should continue to ensure that peace prevails in the country. — www.nyasatimes.com/ Xinhua.
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