The newly appointed Zesco Board of Directors and Management have set a twelve months ultimatum in which to see tangible impact in the supply and distribution of power countrywide.
Zesco Board of Directors chairman, Songowayo Zyambo, said it is disheartening to note that distribution of power to customers has been ineffective due to factors that include obsolete cable networks and unreliable power supply.
To this effect, Mr Zyambo has implored Zesco management to look for resources to ensure diesel power generation is done away with in the country to ensure reliable supply and distribution of power to customers.
Mr Zyambo, who is heading the Board of Directors on the familiarization tour of the Livingstone Zesco power station, said there is need to put all areas, such as Kaputa in Northern Province, on the national grid.
He observed the need for optimally and reliably supply and distribution of power to customers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week at top quality.
“The Board of Directors has learnt that there is need to do a lot of work on supply and distribution of power so Zesco management should bear in mind that customers come first and are the best judge,” he said.
He said the new Zesco Board and Management were focusing on neglected areas to ensure quality distribution and supply of power.
Mr Zyambo observed that obsolete underground cable net is impeding the distribution of power.
He said areas such as Lusaka have rotten underground cables, and expressed worry that more frequent power faults and failure would be experienced especially in the rainy season.
“It is disheartening to note that the distribution network cannot take power to customers despite power being produced because cables are faulty and rotten,” he said.
The Board of Directors is on an orientation tour of Zecso installation following the appointment in April this year.
Mr Zyambo said the board has undertaken the tour in order to have a visual orientation and inspection of Zesco installations in the country.
He further said that the board has adopted an interactive approach with Zesco employees and management in order to appreciate their concerns and to ensure equality and fairness.
Mr Zyambo said the tour also involves taking an on the spot check of reports that Zesco management make and to listen to employees on the grassroots in order to map the way forward.
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Too much talk and no action.
We are just Lazy.
Now it is all easterners even in Board of Directors..A Banda Bwezani avativuta..Let us remove him in 2011 pliz
how can he say we do away with generators.does he know what he is talking about .to day south africa is still building power staations that generate power from coal.to do away with generator will take many year than the 12 months ,he is taking about .lip service
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Even I have set myself a 12 months ultimatum to have £1million in my account! Simples!
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pono pono pono kuma mako!!
I hear the recent unannounced power cuts and restoration of power supply especially in Lusaka have led to extensive damage of domestic appliances, and some lives have been lost. Why can’t the victims sue ZESCO. These Companies do not respect customers rights, very sad! The times of Mwansa as Director, and Dr. Joseph Mutale as Generation and Transmission Manager were better than the operations today.
Hey hey bloggers. Whats this I picked on the Post “PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has directed that Lusaka lawyer Dr Rodger Chongwe be paid approximately US $5.9 million”
So Ba Nyama Soya is the LAW. Great pa Zed. RB, SC, “Yes yo Wo-sheep” Cool umh?
Everywhere you go now, be it cabinet, boards etc, it is ba kumawa everywhere as though other Zambians do not exist. Now he is even paying Roger Chongwe millions of dollars, when it was Miyanda, another wa kumawa who deliberately and criminally ordered Chongwe and KK shot at in Kabwe. All these are sins Banda will have to pay for once he is out of power, well, if he does not meet his waterloo while “kamwendo munjila-ling”.
Why does it have to take the chairman of the board to notice that Lusaka has rotten underground cables? what has management been doing? ZESCO is a viable entity, it just needs proper management. This talk talk business will never take Zambia anywhere
ZESCO definately needs competition. We cant have a company enjoying the mopoly supply of electricity for over 40 years!!!
UTIMATUM TO WHO? THIS WHOLE ENGLISH IS WRONG. AN ULTIMATUM IS A WARNING. AND IT IS USUALLY FOLLOWED BY THE ACTION IF YOU DONT COMPLY. ZESCO HAS SET AN ULTIMATUM BUT WITH NO CONSEQUENCES IF NOT MET. AND TO WHO WAS IT SET. NORMALY AN ULTIMATUM IS SENT AND NOT SET. WHAT ZESCO NEEDS IS A TARGET. UNLESS MY FREE EDUCATION IS WRONG I REST MY CASE
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has directed that Lusaka lawyer Dr Rodger Chongwe be paid approximately US $5.9 million as compensation for the 1997 Kabwe police shooting in which the latter and former Republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda were injured
The post”The source said the minister of finance Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane was worried because he does not know where the ministry would get that kind of money.
“I can confirm that we have been informed that about US $5.9 million be sourced and paid to Dr Chongwe as compensation from the Zambian government over the 1997 Kabwe shooting in which he was injured with Dr Kaunda,” the source said. “But the question everyone here at the ministry is asking including the minister is, where will the government find that kind of money to pay Dr Chongwe alone? To be honest with you when you look at the numerous obligations the country has, there is no way we can proceed to pay that amount unless President Banda as usual leans on the minister of finance”
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Dr Chongwe could not be reached for a comment, as he was reportedly out of the country.
During last year’s presidential by-election, PF leader Michael Sata said Dr Chongwe was supporting Rupiah Banda’s candidature on tribal grounds.
“Comrade Rodger Chongwe is trying to use tribalism thinking that if he comes in the open to support Rupiah Banda and when Rupiah Banda is elected, he is going to get his (Chongwe’s) US $2.5 million but that should not be our preoccupation,” said Sata.
He said former president Frederick Chiluba and president Mwanawasa refused to pay Dr Chongwe the US $2.5 million, which he claimed from the government after being shot in Kabwe on grounds that the judgment was obtained in a foreign country and the Zambian government had not been given an…
Another dreamer and thief. If electrical power is generated and it does not reach customers where does it go Zyambo? If you know nothing keep quiet and people with technical knowledge to talk sense on your behalf. From the nonsense you have already shown us above we have already seen no hope in you. Where do Diesel generator issues come in mr director? I thought your failure is in load shedding? Why increase if you can’t manage the little you have? You want to buy new cables inflate price and steal with RB again?
And why does Livingstone have frequent power load shedding more than bigger and industrial Lusaka and the Copperbelt? When actually Livingstone has its own power station?!!?
#12 correction “monopoly”
ZESCO needs a lot of clean-up in order to function well.For a start, they should admit failure in running the organisation effectively.
#2 Mr Zyambo was the ZNFU nominee to the ZESCO board.He has been Executive Director of the ZNFU since the time FTJ was president .He has represented the Zambian farmers on negotiations with ZESCO for special Tarrifs.
Keep the tribal politics to yourself.The PF/UPND pact doe’s not need people like you,Mr Suntwe.
These guys do not inspire me, I hope that the Chair and his Board know what they are talking about. We have too much ignorance in this country. The sad thing is that when one is in a position of authority (usually attained dubiously), such ignorance passes for intelligence.
13 Zambian: Yes indeed with my free KK education I have similar sentiments . Additionally Zyambo does not tell us how those objectives will be achieved or why Zesco has failed to do this before. Or what we should do to him if the objectives are not met!
8 Okocha. I have done some simple research with Zesco colleagues just to set the record straight for you and other bloggers. During that time Mwansa was managing director and Mutale was transmission manager and later director of engineering projects. My colleagues also say that those times had their own contextual setting.
It’s good that Zesco Board has given itself a 12-month period to sortout the mess. Bwana Zyambo the count down has started. No results No Board; Period!
ba zesco cant even employ us quallified ENGINEERS .thats why always ma problems..ba zesco twapapata ..pliz do something ..where can you go with unquallified man power ? thats why we cant even develop..i tell you zesco has unqualified people..i was there i know
#26 Sichi powerz, we know you, mwilaponta! ZESCO has very qualified engineers, not of your calibre. These Russian degrees you getting are nothing! You are even lucky you have a job somewhere Cheating Students in Electrical and Electronics! at UNZA. We have heard how the standards have fallen in our former Department, because of you incompetence! The RUSSIAN degree and these borgus MASTER”s and PHD’s you get are nothing, because you honestly know nothing. Mwilaponta!
The Board of Directors is on an orientation tour of Zecso installation following the appointment in April this year.
How can this be a new board? What have they being doing since more than 6 months ago! Appoint CEO or has the post being banished? DOC was ok.
What kind of board speaks like this? How are they going to do what the previous managemnet failed to do? Do they understand the issues. Do they have the money to replace those rotten cables?
Funny how some people read a story on LT then start telling us ati I hear “this has cut in Zed”… meanwhile it was even on LT two days ago. mmmmh