THE Lusaka High Court has adjourned hearing for all applications relating to a matter in which former president Edgar Lungu’s barber, Shebby Chilekwa, wants the court to summon police to show cause as to why they have continued detaining him, to today. The state recently asked Lusaka High Court judge Mwape Bowa to review or vary his order in which he commanded the Zambia Police Service to allow Chilekwa to access medical treatment at the University Teaching Hospital. The state also asked the court to stay execution of the said order pending determination of the application, arguing that it is unnecessary and costly to bring Chilekwa from Kaoma to Lusaka when he is being attended to in a government medical...

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