The Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) has dispelled remarks from some sections of society that the recently launched solar geyser installation programme was politically driven and not aimed at benefiting the majority of Zambians.
ZESCO Public relations Manager André Makulu told ZANIS in an interview today that such remarks were disparaging and retrogressive to ZESCO and all well-meaning Zambians.
Mr.Makulu stated that people making such comments were merely speculating and did not understand the origins of the programme, adding that there was need for people to recognise that the programme was part of a five- year plan that ZESCO was fulfilling.
He said that the programme dates back to as far as 2007 but the power utility could not embark on it due to financial constraints and other matters that required attention.
Mr. Makulu advised Zambians to instead dwell on positives of the programme and desist from engaging in unnecessary criticisms.
“There is no need for politicking this issue because ZESCO wants to ensure that Zambia just like any other country in the world reduces on carbon emissions” Mr. Makulu said.
Mr.Makulu explained that the programme was applicable to all Zambian households who were ZESCO customers with readily available pipe water connected to their homes to sustain the geysers.
“The programme works on an exchange basis principle” Mr. Makulu added. He urged all Zambians to support the programme and take time to learn about it and its benefits.
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Geysers were there is no runing water is like giving someone socks when he has no shoes
yea right !!!!
as if
What the reason? To save on electricity so that we export.? Or it is a corporate social responsibility gesture because zesco made a profit or now it is because we reducing carbon emissions. Simply many reasons depending on who is justifying? One action many reasons….. Including politics. Which one sticks? Take your pick!
Young man you embarrasing a great man late Stanley Makulu . MHSRP
Makulu keep quite! We know all the details and just wait for the right time to justify your crookedness! How much has Zesco invested in this project? Who are the suppliers of the geysers? Whats the cost to the beneficiaries? What method is Zesco using to determine the beneficiaries? Which other areas has Zesco targeted, if not people in Sikongo, Nabwalya, Lunga swamps, Chama, Luano Valley, Lukulu etc? The mismanagement at Zesco will be probed and those responsible will pay the price, period!
I hear there is a private agricultural company that may have supplied the geysers. We await the results of input supply, seed in particular!
Makulu stop playing with the mind of Zambians. We are too enlightened some of us to be fooled like that. ZESCO giving out free gysers to the public. How did you acquire these gysers. There is nothing for free the and somewhere someone is going to pay for these gysers. This is purely a campaign gimic by the incumbet.
My plea always is that technology is more desperately needed today by those less privileged than those who create it or who immediately see the qualified use of it. In this sense, then, why don’t we first set off for the rural places where the populations need the services of qualified professionals. Look, take water reticulation there (with solar powered pumps), put up your solar geysers and then facilitate teacher, health workers and civil engineers to ‘comfortably’ continue to develop those areas because their own welbeing will be taken care of??? Is this too much to ask? Am sure the beneficiaries are already lining up in Sunningdale and those places already endowed!!! Eish!
Good evening
Corporations all over the world are working towards the reduction of CO² emission because they hope to enhance product and service quality in future so I wonder why all the guns on Andre?
Anyways, sometimes in this business certain facts are held back from the consumer and people on the ground may know things better than I do, so I wont comment further.
As for Zeskolo… baza ziba wocita abene. LoL!
Zed kwena sucks From nowhere gysers have become a priority. Isnt this the same company in financial doldrums to an extent that loadsheding has become a normal alternative? From mandamandas, mobile hospitals n gysers. WTF!!!
Simply put; why not invest this money into the installation of solar panels for electricity to catter for all busic schools and health centres in the rural areas????
OUR PRESIDENT HAS FAILED TO GIVE ENOUGH JUSTIFICATION ON THIS PROJECT OF GEYSERS. HOW CAN YOU MAKULU, A CARDER TRY TO FOOL THE ZAMBIAN PIPO? WE HEAR YOU ARE THERE TO SERVE RUPIAS INTEREST
GEYSERS BUT NO WATER SO WHATS THE USE.ITS BETTER TO HAVE RUNNING WATER IN ALL HOMES IN THE SHANTIES.
Correct me if am wrong but its my understanding Zambia uses hydro electricity generated by dams and lakes. What carbon emissions are emitted from hydro generated electricity? I think they dont know what carbon emissions are. Carbon emissions are derived from the burning of fossil fuels like natural gas, oil, coal etc. Its my understanding that electricity generated by the burning of coal is a thing of the past in Zambia. Please enlighten us!!!
those who talk to manager tell him that is so dull how do you start the programe of solar geryser in lusaka when other provinces many town uses fuel power . why are you not starting in north western and western provinces where there is no hydro power that why we saying this programe is part of campaign now you are if you are talking to children.
It is the way that it was announced that has created the political angle therefore it is not the comments that are misplaced but the politicians who wanted to gain political mileage who are in the wrong.
Some of the comments here from the PF muppets are nauseating. The logic is simple, if you do not have running water in your house the solar geysers are not for you. Be satisfied with the cheaper fertiliser you received under FSP. Leave the geysers to us who have plenty of running water in our homes and can afford to pay for it.
This is done ad wrong time.Why only here?Go kumishi,makulu mwawesu.
Educated people thus engineers have recommended the deal saying its workable and it can reduce load shedding now the people in Mandevu have never used their geysers moreover they were also given free elctricity
When did this Makulu become PR Manager at ZESCO he is a relative of Banda from Ala Bee first wife. Its all politics
So, let me get this straight. ZESCO, whose source of power is hydro electric, which has no carbon emmissions as far as I am concerned, is dishing out free geysers in Lusaka, so as to reduce carbon emmissions. Basic science tells you this is bull dung. Couldn’t the reporter have the descency to ask these simple questions? Even Mr Makulu, surely as ZESCO spokesperson, he should have known better than to give out such a vapid explanation. We need deliverance
These MMD vultures! They control the media, the judiciary, the police now ZESCO Is this the politburo or could it be 1984? by George orwell
This embarrasing, look at that road without road markings. Look at the house at the rear of that picture without the roof. My goodness it is quiete staggering.
Zambia as a country is finished. it needs a complete overhaul. I would love us to lose our independence and let the British rule the country, they will create jobs, swimming pools, I mean look at zambia in the 50’s and the zambia now?What is better?
Absolutely astonishing, I am bleeding with hate. Thanks
You clearly don’t remember the segregation then…little lost cow!!
RB is winning in 2011. Ask Sata – what is Carbon Emissions…
Good observation #14, and #21. You are both right. Hydro Power generation does not cause carbon emissions. Period. I had a good laugh when I first saw the article. Its either Mr. Makulu was misquoted by LT, or he needs serious help. I honestly hope he was misquoted because I cannot imagine a PR Manager of a huge engineering company like ZESCO not knowing the fundamentals of science.
mwebantu am also at pains to deduce what this illiterate PR for ZESCO meant about CO2 emittions. When you lie just know that you soon reach dead end and people will catch up with you just as we have caught Makulu.He is a fool together with LT journalist who didnt press him on this issue. Please journalists we beg that you research a bit before you publish or have interviews with these chaps like Makulu in order to pin them down when they give you these senseless stories.
Splaka you are right on the money!!
Makulu, you shud supply a geyser to mushota, she needs one right up her a.r.s.e. to keep it warm!!
Piece of advice to Mr Makulu. Keep quiet and let people think you are a fool rather than speak and prove you. Desperate times calls for desperate measures and MMD are in PANIC MODE. Piece of advice to MMD, desperate times calls for COOL heads so you don’t make mistake after mistake.
I suppose its the carbon emmission from Malasha that people would have otherwise used if not given a free ZESCO geyser. You just wonder how much of it has to do with Zesco. Well may be they are just being good cooperate citizens who have decided to share with the community…..
ZESCO should keep quiet and stop embarrassing themselves. We all know what is happening. rupia commissioned the geysers in Mandevu and this chap is saying people with piped water in their homes should apply. Do people in Mandevu have piped water in their homes?
Most of those geysers will be used for making migomo/shomeka!
What carbon emissions are these guys talking about? ZESCO has always used hydro-electric. There is no carbon emissions in power generated by hydro-electric. What people need is clean running water not Geysers without water. The money that ZESCO is wasting in giving away free solar panels, can be used in alternative power production such as Geo-thermal or better still nuclear energy, since the Zambia has uranium in North Western Province. Lusaka Water and Sewerage cannot supply water to the three million people living in Lusaka because they claim that they do not enough resources to pump water from either Kafue or Zambezi river meanwhile their sister company is busy wasting the much needed funds. Shame on you ZESCO!
Mandevu has the highest number of registered voters in Lusaka,so this Andre is yapping bull.We all know that this is a campaign gimmick by mmd.Like some bloggers have rightly said,there is no carbon emissions from hydro electricity.This kind of desperation by mmd is driving Zambia into deep problems,where is Zasco getting the money from to give out FREE geysers?I see chiluba working behind the scenes on this one,cos he used the same zessco during his tenure to get votes through some kind of promotion were Zesco gave out ubunga and other products.
Even if it is a campaign trick so what? You think there is a govt in the world that does not try to woo more voters during election time? At least the MMD govt has the arsenal to do so because it has managed the economy very well and that is the real issue that you perpetual failure (pf) kaponyas are complaining so loudly. If you are one of the families that has received a geyser, is it really likely that you will vote for a party that is against you having hot water? Similarly, if you a villager accessing a mobile hospital, are you going to vote for a party that is so vehemently opposed to their provision? The govt is playing a clever game and all paltry faculties (pf) can do is issue insults.
We Mbwa we iwe ka ZESCO Public relations Manager André Makulu. Don’t you think it would have been cheape, non political and a good thing if the money used to put Geysers could have been used to electrify houses of poor Zambians in Shanty towns to reduce deforestation and climate change?
If poor houses in Shanty towns are electrified it would have helped to reduce deforestation as people wont resort to CHARCOAL BURNING!!!
Iwe ka ZESCO Public relations Manager André Makulu, you are very ignorant of climate change. Looks like you are the top candidate of ZESCO employees who needs to go for climate change education and sensitization.
Do you even know what causes climate change?
But then why did Ala Bee do the launch? It all stinks of political mileage. Kupasa ma Geyser kuliko manje Kapasidwe!
What type of sillyness is it for you thugs to complain about everything??? The bulk of you are arguing from a colpletely uninformed and totally shallow perspecptive. Do geysers have a benefit??? Yes!! Free geysers???? Yes!! Are they a part of a direct benefit to the poor??? Yes!! Colleagues, whilst you remain posting nonsensical statements, RB is pushing developmental projects at an unprecedented level. We are taught to give thanks in all situations, and what better time to give thanks than now when we are receiving the benefit of paying tax. As for Andre, he has clealry had an illustrious career, he works hard and has the flair. His ambition is by far more than those of most arm chair critics such as the shallow minded Mushotas of this world
By the way iwe ka ZESCO Public relations Manager André Makulu, don’t you think ZESCO needs to build hydro electric power stations in places like Zambezi where they use DIESEL POWERED machines?
If ZESCO builds hydro electric power stations instead of the DIESEL POWERED machines, CARBON EMISSIONS will be reduced.
Its not the GEYSERS that will reduce carbon dioxide emissions but prudent and practical approaches of ZESCO free from political decisions.
#36 blessings
I we ka #36 blessings, you are silly and a thug if you can not complain about this misplaced MMD GEYSER project.
As Zambian, we are arguing from a completely informed perspective.
Do FREE geysers have a benefit? NO!! because they a part of a direct benefit to SELFISH POLITICIANS taking advantage of poor Zambians corruptly.
RB is pushing ZAMBIA INTO DEBTS at an unprecedented level which will LEAVE the NEXT Zambian GENERATIONS IN debts that wont be repaid.
We just struggled to come out of this DEBT trap through our blood, poor Zambians died at the expense of the IMF structural adjustment programe.
MMD politicians used to ask poor Zambians to tighten their belts during this period, but they INCREASED THEIR GRATUITY allowances and pensions.
Abena Shaka, you have raised a good point on the debt issue, but have opted to coat it with ignorance, sillyness and shallowmindedness. What is development?? What is the cost of the geysers?? Hope you are alive to the fact that our economy has grown and keeps growing at above 5% whilst our reserves are way above 5 months import cover. Now, firstly, we have the ability to settle reasonable loans, and secondly and more importanlty, the serpent, in seeking to pleases his relatives and the massess shall plunge us into mayhem. Go to the compounds and you’ll listen to their expectations from fred mmembe and cobra. A guard is expecting three houses, in line with satas promises. A bus driver wants to live on musengele road in sunningdale. How will that be financed??
thanks for ignoring mushota
How can you give geysers without water ?MMD you are really panicking . its like giving someone Nshima without relish . by the way were did you called those geysers from i smell a rat
Mr Makulu you are being used as an organisation controlled by the government. The MMD has been using Zesco, Ministry of Health to mention a few to fund its campagins. In 2006 Zesco got huge amount of loan from World Bank/IMF. By then Sisala was the MD. I met with Sisala in London and was very much surprised to hear the plans of the loan Zesco got from World Bank in 2006. The reasons Zesco gave to the World Bank was very different from the actual usage of the loan. Of course the lend do not compel you to stick to what you the borrower say you will use that money for. This loan Zesco got from World Bank went to the campaigns for MMD. Some plans were discussed at the London High Commission on how the monies were to be used. Which areas to concentrate on for MMD to win the 2006 election
I can help Mr. Makulu explain why this project will result in carbon emissions reduction. Residents especially in areas without piped water supply use charcoal to boil water and the use of solar geysers will reduce deforestation and carbon emissions. Furthermore the use of energy saving bulbs and solar geysers are well known energy saving measures. What I can’t justify is ZESCO”s magnanimity in issuing free solar geysers in a highly populated area in an election year by a government seeking to be reelected
A lot of sense and nonsense above. My conclusion; the Free Geyser project was commissioned by the President, therefore the rationale behind this project is NOT TECHNICAL, as it is being presented by Makulu. It is POLITICAL. Assuming that the project was conceived by ZESCO then the timing has not done the MMD (and Rupiah Banda) any good. No need to comment further.
Of course it was political – duh! Looks like it might work as well judging by the usual whining and complaining emanating from the populist fiction (pf) supporters.
Firewood and charcoal are carbon emitters when people use them a lot to warm their water. So they think solar geysers are a solution to reduced use of charcoal. What about cooking? Minimal fee to connect new house, free electricity. ZESCO goes green energy! ke kekekekekekekekekeke, yaba, awe mwandi. But ba Zesco why now? why free? Why Rupiah to commission them? Is it a priority? is there water flowing in the pipes to take water into the geysers or you have to fetch water pa chishima and go and pour into the geyseer? Indeed ni ba Bwezi Rubbish Bin SHREK!
Still so many places have no water and power supply and ZESCO is talking about buying free ‘luxury’ geysers to people who struggle to meet the basics of life. Whats is ZESCO’s benefit anywhere. Giving Geysers for free to reduce carbon emission hahaha! so these will work, as well, like pressure cookers eh? no carbon from cooking. And how is ZESCO’s liquidity. Advice Mr Makulu, next time reduce the electricity tariff rates for such areas and most people will stop buying charcoal and start using electricity instead. Another political flop!!!
There was one chief patriotic F00l who said bring the geysers but ……….. He seems to be more sensible than his followers here who are thinking with their feet. Mobile hospitals, roads, free electricity connection, free solar geysers, rural electrification, water articulation, and bumper harvests. What do the Patriotic F00ls have to say. They will whine, cry, moan, mourn and even soil themselves. Losing is there trade mark.
Awe kansi bantu munakalipa pa Zed. Oh, not pa Zed, but mu diaspora! Makulu just go back to ZNBC and do what your father was good at. “Take your pick”
What carbon emissions? Unless ZESCO tells us that we are using charcoal to boil water! Then this is not their responsibility(to distribute geysers). Why not distribute these in place where they are using thermal energy like Luangwa, Zambezi, Chavuma- there carbon credits would be more visible i think. BTW Andre needs to know better that ZESCO’s power is by large hydropower; one of the cleanest sources of energy. We are not using nuclear power like SA who need to be worried about and neither do we coal plants here! Ok just in case I am ignorant, i will need ZESCO’s guidance here.
Now suddenly Zesco has the finances. I wish we had the right to reject the annual tarriff adjustments. When adjusting tariffs ZESCO claims poverty, but in 2011 they claim they have finances. Misplaced priorities will haunt them. Shame on ZESCO.
The MMD government under President Rupiah Banda has given residents of Mandevu free solar geysers, but the township has had not piped water for many years.ANYWAY THANKS for the FREE GEYSERS MR PRESIDENT.
Andre (and ZESCO management), if as you state, your intentions are to reduce load on the grid, wouldn’t you achieve more by removing all the cookers (stoves) from the system. Almost every household in Zambia that has electricity uses an electric cooker. Surely you would have more success giving out gas cookers!! The gas is produced as a natural by-product of the refining process, but Indeni currently just flares (burns) it because there is no demand. Start a project to harvest this gas, can it, distribute it around the country for sale to households. It would have a dramatic impact in reducing peak time electricity demand. But you are power experts, you know this, which is why I’m suspicious of your motives on the geyser project. Raising campaign funding?!
Tell it to the hand
It’s not everyday that people in Mandevu or indeed elsewhere heat up bathwater. Cooking is arguably the more candidate for a tiny (0.000000001% not accurate but looking at Zambia’s contribution to the carbon print worldover) of carbon emissions. We are not even on the high end of developing countries to be seriously looking at reducing carbon emissions. I agree with most brilliant commentators that the focus should be providing Mandevu people with clean running water, better sanitation, more primary healthcare centres stocked with personnel and medicines. This would go down very well. Just look at mobile hospitals – when the current fleet depreciates, are we going to get another loan from China to replace these? What’s the cost of running these facilities in a period of 5 years?
Following on above, the cost of running mobile hospitals will be massive, hence it’s prudent to building a lasting structure, train more medical personnel and come up with an excellent retention policy of these staff. Dare I add more? Our politicians fi inkula.
When did ZESCO become committed towards sustainability and reduction of carbon emmisions. If this was part of ZESCOs agenda we would have seen it a long time ago. ? You Makulu chap just shut up and dont allow politicians to use you. This is pure politics at work and if not its a wrong time and year for such because even if you are genuine no one will beleive you. Shame on you. Sort out load shedding first by balancing generation and consumption before talking about bulbs.
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