MZUZU (Maravi Post)—Mzuzu City Council Officials have revealed its plan of exhuming the body of the late Chakufwa Chihana who was Malawi’s freedom fighter as well as founder of the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) saying the current graveyard is poorly allocated.

According to the Mzuzu City Council Chief Executive Officer McCloud Kadam’manja, the city council is planning to establish a new hero’s acre where Chihana’s body will be reallocated.

“Our aim is to have one area where or Malawian heroes will be buried. The new established cemetery will be situated behind Mzuzu ADMARC offices,” said Kadam’manja.

He said the council will meet Chihana’s family to discuss on the matter before the reallocation.

However, it is not known whether the family will give the council a go ahead especially because it has insisting that the body should remain at the current site saying the area is conducive.

Chihana, was buried at a place known as Kawiruwiru some meters behind Mzuzu Reserve Bank Offices a placed he choose before he died as it was the place where he held his first political rally after release from prison.

Some source revealed to our reporter that the council is doing that because it has sold the current cemetery plot to a certain construction company.