FORMER president Edgar Lungu says he has received information indicating that the Zambia Police Service has been instructed to ambush and abduct him in the dark of the night. The PF and UKA leader took to social media to reveal the supposed plan to “embarrass and forcefully detain him like a hardcore criminal”, claiming that he had been under house arrest since he lost the republican presidency. Posting on his Facebook page yesterday, Lungu wondered whether government respected his office if a sitting President could “endorse a malicious ambush and barbaric arrest of a former head of state”. “Yesterday, I received disturbing information, indicating that the Zambia Police Service has opened 25 dockets against me based on formal complaints from...

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