PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema’s Political Advisor Levy Ngoma and another have sued Emmanuel Jay Jay Banda and three others in the Lusaka High Court for defamation. Ngoma and UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson Trevor Mwiinde have sued Petauke Independent MP Jay Jay Banda, Zambian Whistle Blower owner Thomas Allan Zgambo, NDC leader Saboi Imboela and her PeP counterpart Sean Tembo. The duo is seeking, among other reliefs, compensatory damages for defamation of character, aggravated and exemplary damages for repeated publication of defamatory statements. They also want damages for mental torture, trauma, hatred, ridicule, contempt, distrust, and embarrassment suffered as a result of the said published defamatory words. The duo further wants the court to grant them an injunction restraining the four,...

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