President Rupiah Banda says the late former Cabinet Minister, Kabunda Kayongo served the nation in a distinguished manner.
Mr Banda says Dr Kayongo’s death is not just a loss to the family but to the entire nation.
President Banda said this in a message of condolences to the family of the late Dr Kayongo made available to ZNBC by his Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations, Dickson Jere.
The President said he learnt with sorrow the death of Dr. Kayongo, who died at the Lewanika General Hospital in Mongu, Western Province on Friday.
President Banda has accorded Dr. Kayongo a State Funeral as a former Cabinet Minister.
She served as Education Minister and also as Minister of Community Development and Social Services in the MMD government under President Frederick Chiluba.
The former minister will be buried on Monday which has been declared a day of national mourning.
ZNBC
I am so definite you mean MOURNED? Do you have an editor worth a pinch of salt, LT?
Too bad.M.H.S.R.I.P.:-?
moaned? lmao!!!! LT , you need to be serious with your spellings. Did any of you get an education?
Quiet woman of substance. In her own calm way she exerted influence and developed every department she worked. Rest in peace. You are a source of inspiration. Twapopwela mwane.
what kind of reporting is this, no information about the sickness and when it started. how come in Lewanika not UTH? something is fish here. we need more data please.
Guys to be honest, Kayongo like Hambayi were some of the most useless ministers of education Zambia had
LT You learn to be serious with your reporting. There is alot of vital information missing here. Which Friday did she die? Which Monday is burial? Where will Burial take place? How did she die? Was it in RTA? For someone outside Zambia, it is difficult t understand this.
Dr Kayongo lectured me in my first year at UNZA. She was a nice person and always tried to make her lectures informative and entertaining. I will never forget her lecture on the theory of the “Noble Savage”. Her death is a real loss. MHSRIP.
She was in a class of her own. One of the few hard working and clean ministers in FTJ’s cabinet.R.I.P.
#5 Kafupi,
She could have travelled home (kwa Hae) and fell sick. That may be the reason why she ended up in Lewanika General and not UTH.
She was one of the few ministers who wanted things to improve for everyone. The ‘dribblers’ in the government did not like her because she was an honest person. A real loss.
Dr. Kabunda Kayongo, colleague and friend at UNZA in those days, sad to know you are gone, but happy that you are now in the good care of our Lord. May your soul rest in peace.