LUSAKA City Council (LCC) Town Clerk Liftery Ndaba has dragged blogger Chitambala Mwewa to court for defamation over a series of corruption allegations published on social media. In a statement of claim filed in the High Court, Ndaba said that on January 28, 2026, Mwewa published a video and text directly accusing him of corruption regarding a council car park. Ndaba said Mwewa called him corrupt, claiming that he was blocking a local black-owned business from securing a 13-year lease in order to convert the car park into a bus station for personal financial gain. Ndaba is now demanding substantial damages for libel, an immediate injunction, and an unconditional public apology from Mwewa, who runs the popular Facebook page Simon...

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