LUSAKA Lawyer Makebi Zulu says the refusal by Cabinet Office to grant authority to former president Edgar Lungu to travel to South Africa for medical review is misplaced. In a letter dated September 7, 2023, Deputy Secretary to Cabinet Dr Oliver Kalabo informed Lungu that his request to travel to South Africa had not been granted. But commenting on this in an interview, Zulu said Lungu’s access to health care was not by negotiation, but a matter of right. “The letter if you read it is saying ‘authority to travel has not been granted’. To start with, the former president does not need the authority of government to travel. So that letter is misplaced in so far as not to...