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Non-performing Directors face Govt axe

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Minister of Water Development, Sanitation, and
Environmental Protection, Lloyd Kaziya

Government has threatened to fire non-performing directors of utility companies.

Minister of Water Development, Sanitation, and Environmental Protection, Lloyd Kaziya sounded the warning in Mbala when he met Chambeshi Water and Sewerage Company Management and other company staff at Chila Lodge.

Mr. Kaziya said Government was pumping a lot of money in utility companies in the country without getting satisfactory results.

The Minister observed that Northern Province sits on a huge water resource in the whole Southern Africa and yet it has no water bottling company of its own.

 

Mr. Kaziya challenged the staff at Chambeshi Water to start thinking of ways of sustaining themselves instead of relying on Government for support.

He could not understand why the utility company has failed to offset huge amounts of debt from National Pensions Scheme Authority -NAPSA- when it has experts to improve its revenue base.

And Northern Province Permanent Secretary Jobbicks Kalumba said the provincial administration will closely monitor Chambeshi Water to ensure the supply of water to the public improved.

Dr. Kalumba said it was time the company started entering into partnerships with other companies in the water sector to improve its financial capacity.

 

And Chambeshi Company Managing Director Willard Mutoka revealed that the company was losing a lot of un-billed water owing to high defaulter rate and intermittent breakdowns of its old supply system.

Mr. Mutoka said there was need to replace the obsolete water supply system if the firm is to operate at full scale.

9 COMMENTS

  1. all these companies are suffering from one disease – donor dependency and lack of innovation. how can they all fail to use solar pumping systems in this age and era. give me any water utility company in this country – I will turn it around in 2 -3 years. if not fire me.

    • While the warning is timely…the typos on this site are appalling! What crap is this?

      Non-permining Directors face Govt axe

    • A government of threats, by the threateners for the threatened.
      Every day, they are threatening. The chief threatener is the President. So far, he has only fired one minister.

  2. I was really like “LT has confused me with a word I have never heard of before? What on earth is permining?” Kansi ni typo

  3. Too much threat and I have lost count…..What s the yardstick of performance for directors not to be fired ? who set them? Talk is cheap… Kaziya must be caged at Matero…. He does not know what his job entails.

  4. Wow wow wow! I just realized how detached I’m from this cabinet/ government, there are even ministers like this one? Ok good message, Am glued to Aljazeera and CNN.

    All the best minister!

  5. A minister in charge of water development and sanitation and environmental protection proposing that one of the means a water utility company can use to increase its revenue stream is to set up a water bottling company. Did I get this line of thought correct? There are so many things wrong with this thinking.
    – Water bottling will compete with water supply through pipes. It is counter to promoting safe tap water
    – The containers used for bottled water contribute significantly to environmental pollution. First through their production and secondly because they are non-bio-degradable.

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