Luena - The governor of Moxico province, Ernesto Muangala, met Sunday behind closed doors, with the royal court of the Mbunda kingdom to seek solutions for the succession of the late king Mwene Mbandu IV.
The meeting followed a note of protest against the only candidate, Du Shefu Mbandu, who was to be enthroned on Saturday, forcing the ceremony to be postponed without a date.
The protest was presented by the family of the man who would succeed King Mwene Mbandu IV, who consider him to be “an arrogant individual, with a deviation of character, lacking in management and unification principles and a tribalist”.
In order to find a solution and a way out to this issue, the local governor consulted the royal court, after technicians from the Ministry of the Interior had done so in July, about the real reasons for contesting the choice of Du Shefu Mbandu, as the 25th Mbunda sovereign, after the death of Mwene Mbandu IV (João Pedro Mussole), three months after his enthronement in 2022.
Du Shefu Mbandu, a Zambian national aged 53, would adopt the title of Mwene Mbandu V if he were to be enthroned.
He lives in Kaoma district, Western province of the Republic of Zambia, a region that belongs to the Mbunda kingdom.
Mbunda is a kingdom made up of more than 15 million people, residing in the territories of the municipalities of Bundas and Luchazes, both in Angola’s eastern Moxico province, and extends to the neighboring province of Cuando-Cubango, as well as in the Republics of Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Congo. LTY/YD/AMP
