By CHILA NAMAIKO–
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has declared April 28, the birth date for Zambia’s founding President Kenneth Kaunda, as a public holiday in honour of the late top-notch citizen.
Mr Lungu announced this yesterday in his address to the mourners that gathered at the State funeral service of Dr Kaunda at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka which was aired live by major television stations.
Dr Kaunda, who died on June 17, 2021, and was put to rest yesterday at the Embassy Park in Lusaka, was born in 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, then part of Northern Rhodesia.