Several business houses in Kasama have complained over Zesco’s unstable supply of electricity in the town.
Businessmen stormed Kasama District Commissioner’s office today to lodge their complaints over poor supply of the commodity by Zesco.
Shoprite stores Regional Manager, Cornwell Mwiinga, Chambeshi Water and Sewerage Company representative, Arnold Musonda, and other businessmen complained that the continuous low electricity power voltage has affected their operations heavily.
Mr Mwiinga complained that Shprite management fears to stock perishable goods such as cheese and others because of the unstable supply of electricity that has been experienced in the recent days.
He revealed that refrigeration equipment has been damaged several times due to sporadic power fluctuations.
And the Chambeshi Water and Sewerage Company representative, Arnold Musonda, has accused the sole energy supplier of blowing his company’s major water pump that has ended up plunging the township in water blues.
Mr Musonda said the maintenance of the water pumps was costly, adding that repairing one pump costs about K 7 million and the pumps may be blown up more than four times.
Meanwhile Kasama District Commissioner Colonel Stephen Chanda has requested Zesco to stabilize the electricity supply within two weeks.
Col Chanda observed that several Zesco clients have taken him at task to explain why the district was experiencing such low voltage or sometimes high voltage that ends up blowing many commercial equipment and household appliances.
He also advised the company to learn to inform the clients about the power surge in the area instead of just tripping the power suddenly.
But Zesco Regional Manager, Lawrence Sinzala, explained that the tripping and outages were as a result of disturbances of the system on the national grid.
Mr Sinzala produced the statistics of the power outages that are caused by main system disturbances to the clients through the DC’s office.
He also added that power generation at Chishimba has been staggering due constant break downs of machines and that currently Chishimba was supplying only 4 mega watts instead of the normal supply of 6 mega watts. He, however, assured the clients of normal supply in two weeks.
Kasama town has been experiencing power outages for some days that has affected the water reticulation, major business operations and gutting clients’ equipment such computers, TV sets and heavy duty equipment.
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Yea! thats Zesco for you!
zesco is jst useless!!!
wats up ‘baby c’ i thot for the first tym i wud be #1.n’way its ok.
Ba Zesco chaba shani kanshi? :d
:((
MY TV AND THE NEIGHBOURS’S TV , DVD & DECODES WERE DAMAGED DUE TO HIGH VOTAGES .
zesco is useless and its getting worse. watch out people. me thinks you will need to use altenatives if u r in zed.
Zambia Erratic Supply Corporation ^:)^
ZESCO stands for
Z= Zero
E= Energy
S=Supplier
C= Cashin in
O = ooh
kasama today is in trouble! First Mp not doing the job latter ZESCO doing nothing! God help us what is going on in my vilage.#9 good point and it has been taken
ZESCO stands for
Z= Zero
E= Energy
S=Supplier
C= Cashin in
O = ooh
Let us think of alternative energy like solar.Problem is we are not proative rather reactive.Zesco today will be running marathons looking for custmers and providing good ,oh not good but best service in Zed.
Zesco cannot accomodate the estates mushrooming pa zedi.
Clients, why not sue ZESCO?
Zesco pls do ur job, Kasama is more developed than before. infact am from there :)>-
Improve your services.
guys tamwaishiba ,one guy lost his PC due to these same heroic Kasma power cuts at 02:00Am , he got up same time straight ku police and registered his case.the guy added even TVs and other electronics that died 10 years ago an he won the case..nail Zesco
Lets protect our hard earned appliances by protecting them from surge and lows voltage by investing surge protectors because we may loose more… 😮