The Zambia Association of Chambers of commerce and industry says ZESCO should consider revising its salary structure rather than just increasing electricity tariff.
Association President Geoffrey Sakulanda says that instead of allocating huge sums to salaries, ZESCO should instead use money to build the power infrastructure.
Mr sakulanda said this in a statement that while the association appreciates the need for investment in power generation, zesco should consider reforming and decentralising power distribution.
Mr sakulanda suggested this in a press statement to ZNBC that ZESCO should give the distribution of household power to councils.
He is also calling on ZESCO to be more transparent on revenue earned from the fibre optic project.
Mr sakulanda also called on the ERB to license investors in solar farms and windmill farmers across the country.
ZESCO has applied to ERB to increase electricity tariffs.
ZNBC
ZESCO is just one big mismanaged corporation, maybe all the directors including the MD should be FIRED and we bring in experts, they never dissapoint!
You are right. Before passing on the cost to the customer look at what you can cut down as costs in the company. This does not mean that you give workers slave wages but reasonable. European countries like Spain and Greece are carrying out austerity measures to bring their economies on track. Follow their example. I would not want to pay more for a service hoping that it will improve in future. I want to pay more for a service I’m enjoying
One even wonders how they afford buying luxurious cars for a top heavy management at the expense of the poor infrastructure. This is when they have realized that it is important to invest in the rotting infrastructure.
They are complaining of revenue but each month they are connecting more than 800 new customers/houses to the national grid. No wonder this load shading has become inevitable-What can they tell us now about increasing tariffs????
ZESCO is one big monopoly. Disband ZESCO and let it generate power and sell to various companies who should in turn sell to consumers. This will create competition and bring the cost of energy down. It also improves efficiency as consumers would be able to switch to the cheapest supplier. ZESCO is too big to run efficiently. Councils meanwhile can sell energy to consumers as it used to be in the 70’s. Edith Nawakwi, what do you think? I thought you were an expert in energy? Nipakanwa ukubwabwata chapwa!!!!
That is why me and my village have resorted to charcoal and firewood
so u mean they should reduce salaries?? hahaha..less money in pipos pockets
Zesco tariff increase is direct proportional to accelerated deforestation. I wonder what the forest department does, it should be the first to complain and compel ZESCO to look at other cost saving measures before increasing tariffs.
If the ERB could be critical enough it will not give a go ahead. ERB has not performed to the best interest of the Nation. There is deforestation because people are looking for other sources of energy and when we hear about ERB is when there is electricity tariff and fuel adjustments.
If I may find out how many trees have been cut for Charcoal in 2010 and 2011? Where is the tree that we will produce charcoal from in 2021 or 2034? ERB should know this answers and not only concentrate on fuel/ectricity tariff adjustments. Go to work ERB.
ZESCO IS ONE OF THE STUPIDEST COMPANIES IN ZAMBIA. ITS AIMS ARE ONLY TO STEAL FROM CONSUMERS. WAKE UP AND OFFER GOOD SERVICE B4 YOU THINK OF ANOTHER STEALING STRATEGY, ZESCO.
@mfumu Chidano kwena you are a dimwit or dingbat. Dont you know that woodfuel leads to deforestation and deforestation leads to lack of HEP. GO NACK TO SCHOOL MWAICHE. WE SHOULD ACTUALLY ADVOCATE FOR AVAILABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SOURCES OF ENERGY IWE CHUNGWA WE.
You will regret your wild ranting if you think that a private company would bring the cost of electricity down. Obviously ZESCO can, and should, improve on efficiency; but selling it off is not the solution. Supplying electricity to rural Zambia (the largest part of the country) is NOT profitable. No private company will do it. Think before you condemn (from abroad!). You will just land a lot of people in shit.
this fool called Chitundu should go please. he want to make his wife and her sisyer rich so that they can be traveling to China? shame shame on u Chitundu
Can salaries really affect all users of electricity to the extent that they feel the pitch!?
Sakulanda, don’t be bitter! It is time for us Bembas to eat oloso! Ala!
Zesco is one of those old stories, retold time and again but expecting a fresh but different enthusiastic retort from the audience. The Corporate Strategy of this parastatal must tidily be revisited in terms of its cost structure especially its Manpower and its rotten asset procurement policies (perceived as value adding but not). Especially motorized assets,employees and management peripheral benefits, these guys I’m told get free electricity bearly priced. How in the world can you run an entity like a vineyard. Now is the time for Zesco to strive to operate on survival mode than a foolish nephew living on a rich uncle’s pocket.
This ZESCO thing is this inefficient and wasteful because its CEO’s post is never advertised for instead we get thugs pushed into the top echelon whose interest is not service but abuse of their position for their own greed.
I have had problems with ZESCO tariffs for some time now. First it was world bank that proposed that we increase tariffs so that we can find private funding for additional generation capacity and we have been increasing annually with very little results. If one looks at pipeline projects they still gathering dusty. Second, when studies we done, comparison was made with South Africa and we were told our tariffs were too low without taking into consideration the fact that Zambia uses hydro power while SA uses nuclear energy and coal which are far much more expensive. By increasing tariffs to reach parity with SA we are slow giving away one of the few sources for comparative advantage given that our economy already has high cost production
giving the council distribution will mean a lot of jobs lost at zesco and will still increase tarriffs because the council is gona want its share. The council is not as organised as zesco.we dont want poor services its like using Problem type B to solve Problem type, A=BÂ
People this ZESCO issue is serious. Where I stay we only have power 48 hours in a week (2 days), the rest of the days we use chacoal and power comes when we are fast asleep. Honestly speaking, our quality of life is like that of someone in the village but we stay in the CAPITAL city (helen kaunda). And from this situation (chacoal being used so much), I can only say deforestation is at stake. ZESCO please do the deedful and help save the environment. I mean if you supply power 24/7, the market for chacoal will go down atleast. PERFORM!
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