SOLICITOR General Marshal Muchende SC has sued Dr O’Brien Kaaba in the Lusaka High Court, demanding damages for libel after being accused of working with former ACC Director General Thom Shamakamba to cover up corruption. Muchende says contrary to the former ACC commissioner’s allegations, he does not communicate with Shamakamba because the Anti-Corruption Commission has been investigating him over an allegation that a named former provisional liquidator gave him US$500,000. He is now seeking damages for libel contained in an article published in the Daily Revelation Newspaper on July 15, 2024, and in the Daily Nation Newspaper on July 16, 2024, punitive damages, and an injunction restraining Dr Kaaba from further publishing the said or any similar libel. In his...

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