Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema on Monday took his time to visit the funeral house of late Mr Amusaa Mwanamwambwa, the former Speaker of our National Assembly.
The former speaker died on October 21 at Forest Park hospital on Nangwenya Road where he was admitted.
Writing on his official facebook page after visiting the funeral house where he also signed a condolence book, HH said he is deeply shocked with the death of Mwanamwambwa.
“It was deeply moving to meet the widow, Mrs Catherine Mwanamwambwa, their three daughters and the extended family to whom we paid our respects.
“We comforted the bereaved family with prayers and funeral hymns. Zambia has lost a gallant son of the soil,” wrote Hakainde Hichilema.
Hon. Mwanamwambwa was born on May 15, 1940. He hails from Imwambo Village, Kalabo District of the Western Province. Started school in 1949 at Mukola Primary School, where he completed standard II in 1953.
He proceeded to Libonda Middle School, where he completed Standard IV in 1956. He then moved to Lukona Upper Primary School, where he completed Stanard VI in 1958.
The same year, he went to Mongu Secondary School where he successfully completed Form II in 1960.
Then he enrolled at Munali Seconedary School where he completed Form Vi A level in 1964.
In 1965 he went to Middlebury College, Vermont, in the United States where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1969.
In 1975 he went to Bradford University, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, graduated with a Diploma in Tourism Planning.
He worked as Information Assistant in the Zambia Information Services of the Government of the Republic of Zambia between 1964 and 1965.
He was appointed Information Attache’ in the office of Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, USA in 1972.
He was appointed Newspaper Manager for Zambia Information Services in 1972.
