The High Court has scheduled the hearing for a defamation lawsuit filed by former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa against Seth Panyako and Oga Obinna TV for January 22, 2026. Echesa is seeking the removal of videos from Oga Obinna's YouTube channel, alleging they contain derogatory and false statements linking him to violence during the November 2025 Malava by-elections.

• The case was filed on Wednesday, January 7, by Rashid Echesa.
• Echesa accuses Panyako, then a Malava parliamentary aspirant, of making statements portraying him as violent and an arsonist.
• The court directed Echesa to serve the respondents with the application.