ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha has told the High Court that the withholding of former Zambia Army Officer Lieutenant Nigel Mwaba’s salary is in accordance with the law. This is in a matter where Mwaba, who is accused of murdering his lover, Dr Tasila Tembo, has sued the state in the High Court, seeking an order for the payment of his salary arrears from the date of his arrest until his resignation. Mwaba is also seeking damages for loss of income, as well as damages for inconvenience and mental anguish. But in his defence filed in the Lusaka High Court Principal Registry, Kabesha stated that Mwaba’s salary had been withheld since his arrest and detention. “The defendant will aver that the...