Former president of Zambia Edgar Chagwa Lungu has come under fire following the remarks he made after the burial of the country’s fourth republican president Rupiah Bwenzani Banda on Friday.

In his remarks, Lungu pointed out tat people in the country tend to say good about others only when they are gone citing an example of the first republican president Kenneth Kaunda that his children were called thieves just until their father died.

Lungu described the act as hypocrisy.

“The level of hypocrisy across the board is pathetic. We have only celebrated people after they die. We have President Kaunda, who was vilified, his children were called thieves until recently when Good things started to come out when he died,” the former president said.

Lungu’s remarks were not received well by some people who said Lungu must be the last person to talk of hypocrisy.

One Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu said after leading the country into an economic ditch, former president Edgar Lungu should be silent in a dignified manner.

And former Attorney General Musa Mwenye says Lungu’s hypocrisy remarks were a reminder of the arrogance citizens were subjected to during his time in power.