Kukurigo reports that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has disowned her verified Twitter account.
This comes in a desperate bid to escape a defamation lawsuit filed by fellow lawyer, Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka.
Mahere made the bizarre claim in a High Court plea responding to summons for damages by Chinyoka.
Chinyoka is claiming US$100,000 “in damages for defamation and injurious falsehood”.
The lawsuit relates to a tweet posted by Mahere on March 10, 2022 alleging Chinyoka had been suspended from the Petrotrade board for corruption.
Chinyoka is fighting to reverse the suspension of the board he chaired.
In court papers, he says Energy minister Soda Zhemu and senior officials in the ministry are pushing the privatisation of Petrotrade “to the exclusion of the board which is unlawful.”
The developments left Mahere in a pickle as she had alleged Chinyoka and his board members were corrupt.
