CHOMA has been plunged into a power blackout for three days now.
Residents have spent the past two nights in darkness following the unexplained disruption of electricity supply by ZESCO.
The situation has also affected water supply to residents as the Southern Water and Sewerage Company is unable to supply the commodity without electricity.
District commissioner Laiven Apuleni ,however, told ZANIS in Choma today that a major fault at Munzuma substation along Kafue gorge national grid has caused the power black out to Choma town.
Mr Apuleni said ZESCO experts from Lusaka who had arrived in the district yesterday were working round the clock to rectify the fault.
Several residents have been hit by a water shortage with most of them resorting to hand pumps and shallow wells to fetch the commodity.
Most residents have expressed worry that some perishables like food stuffs in their refrigerators may go bad if ZESCO does not restore power supply by today.
The blackout has also severely affected business undertakings.
ZANIS
What we are telling investors in please do not come here.
These are the fruits of sticking to old and outdated electrical systems. In order to cut down on such embarassing situations, we need to install new equipment nation-wide. Or bring in other means of producing power to suffice like geo-power, rather than sticking to hydro all the time.
the solution is solar power. We have enough sun in zambia.