By CHINTU MALAMBOLANDS Minister Jean Kapata has argued in the Lusaka High Court that the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the News Diggers Newspaper cannot rely on the defense of justification and fair comment to stop the court from restraining them from defaming her. She submitted that any information on alleged illegal harvest and trade in Mukula should have been reported to relevant investigative wings, and not circulating it to media houses or posting the same on the Internet, as was the case with the EIA. This is a matter in which Justice Minister Given Lubinda, his Lands counterpart Jean Kapata and President Edgar Lungu’s daughter Tasila have sued News Diggers Media Limited, its editor Mukosha Funga and the EIA in the Lusaka High Court, demanding damages for libel. The three sued Funga, News Diggers Media Limited and EIA as first, second and third respondents respectively, in connection to a story on illegal Mukula trade […]
Kapata, 2 others press on with defamation case
