Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) has denied responsibility for the burning down of a house in Ngombe after a power outage.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS yesterday, ZESCO Director of Corporate Affairs, Besty Phiri said his company is not responsible for the accident because it does not disconnect power to one particular house but many others in the whole area.
It was alleged that ZESCO was responsible for the burning down of a house in Ngombe township last week, as it happened immediately electricity was restored after a power outage.
Some Lusaka residents have complained of experiencing short interval power outages which they allege are the cause of the burning down of houses experienced recently.
Another house in Chawama township caught fire yesterday after a power outage.
There have been complaints from several Lusaka residents that they are experiencing on-off power supply at certain times leading to property damage.
But Mr Phiri said the short interval power outages may be due to maintenance works coinciding with load-shedding.
However, Mr Phiri said it is not all power outages that may be attributed to load shedding, as it was sometimes due to electrical faults, adding that ZESCO does not disconnect power anyhow but follows a load shedding schedule.
Mr Phiri said in events where ZESCO is really responsible for the loss of property, the corporation always compensates the victims.
What is besty phiri insinuating, we obviously don’t expect a fire from on/off water supply but on/off electric supply..Lets investigate the cause of the fire, should it be electric ZESCO should compensate the owner
Take Zesco to court. It is high time. Chiputa bati!
Mr Phiri don’t be FOOLISH. Where do u stay? Come to George compound,Matero,Lilanda and chunga then say the same thing that you follow the load-shedding shedule. We ve lost property yet u are busy barking like a mad dog. U r a fool.
Take them to court please. Its definitely high time they were held responsible for their negligent practice. They make a lot of money from their dodgy services, they should foot the bills for their ignorance. This company is taking people for granted seriously
This bastard, they make schedules that does not include politicians’ and them Zesco big wigs’ residential areas. They need to be sued so they can prove their innocence and the nation can learn how the scheduling is done. It’s annoying that these monkey engineers have failed to solve the power problem and faults, and that power cuts and load shedding has been the norm for 7 years now. What’s even more infuriating is your neighbor telling you they never experience load shedding nor ordinary power cuts because they live on the same street with this Zesco employee or politician.Â
This besty must be fired from ZESCO. Does it mean if a psycho sleeps with so many talibans can claim that he sleeps with a lot of them therefore he’s not responsible for infecting one ngombe girl with HIV??
Its time the affected residents stopped complaining individually but came together and file a class action lawsuit against this irresponsible power company.
ZESCO takes Zambians for granted and never follows its so called load shedding schedule but turns on/off power as they like
Its time Zambians to said… ENOUGH
Somebody should make serous noise on this one. This company has been running away with murder for ages. People have been losing fridges and a lot more other electronic appliances because of this company’s negligence. They are nothing but thieves who take money from poor people for an extremely low and poor services
These guys should seriously go to court, I don’t even want to start counting how many appliances and chargers I’ve lost because of their on/off practices, I’ve installed surge protectors wherever I can to minimize the risk of losing more equipment.
We need to remove this old stupid fool called Chitundu the MD as he does not know what he is doing. Let him just get back to the farm and do some work there with his family and not wasting the time of us Zambians. ZESCO will only develop if he is removed.
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Bafi-color ba zesco dont just bark talk sense people are suffering u cant even connect those who paid u a long time ago.
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