{"id":9360,"date":"2012-04-21T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2012-04-21T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:28:30","slug":"bingus-body-lies-in-state-at-sanjika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/21\/bingus-body-lies-in-state-at-sanjika\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingu\u2019s Body Lies in State at Sanjika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> People from all walks of life on Friday continued flocking to Sanjika Palace in Blantyre to pay their last respects to late President Professor Bingu wa Mutharika.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_9363\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Calista-Viweing-Mutharika.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Calista-Viweing-Mutharika-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Calista-Viweing-Mutharika\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9363\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Callista viewing Mutharika&#039;s body<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe ceremony commenced with prayers before President Joyce Banda led the people in paying homage to the fallen head of state.<\/p>\n<p>Some notable figures at the ceremony included former president Dr. Bakili Muluzi, former vice president Dr. Justine Malewezi among others.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Zambian government on Friday finally handed over the five million liters of fuel loaned to Malawi to facilitate funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>The handover ceremony took place at the Memorial Tower in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of National Resources, Energy and Environment, Mr. Goodal Gondwe, said government will decide how the fuel will be distributed.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi is currently experiencing acute fuel shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People from all walks of life on Friday continued flocking to Sanjika Palace in Blantyre to pay their last respects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[894,525,300,168,466,258,2177],"class_list":["post-9360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bakili-muluzi","tag-bingu","tag-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-blantyre","tag-joyce-banda","tag-malawi","tag-sanjika-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}