COMPOUNDS NOW GETTING OVER 10 HOURS OF ELECTRICITY DAILY
RESIDENTS of Kanyama, Mandevu and other low income communities are now getting a minimum of 10 hours of electricity supply per day, Energy minister Makozo Chikote has asserted.
Chikote highlighted government efforts to ensure that vulnerable areas receive fairer access to power amidst ongoing nationwide supply challenges.
He explained that government deliberately structured the power distribution schedule to prioritise densely populated communities, where many residents lack access to alternative energy sources.
The minister said this during a Diamond TV programme, ‘COSTA’ last evening.
According to Chikote, anyone could verify the improvement in electricity supply by simply calling residents in high density, low-income communities for feedback.
“In this same Zambia, you can call anyone from Kanyama, they will tell you. I get feedback. Call and ask them how much power they receive,” said Chikote.
“We need to agree that we have prioritised the less privileged areas where many of our people live and in those places, we are providing the much needed electricity.”
He stated that government is working tirelessly to manage the gap between constrained electricity supply and the demands of everyday people.
The minister also revealed that Zesco is currently facing financial challenges, which limits its ability to export electricity
He added that the government plans to introduce tariffs that reflect the true cost of electricity, aiming to boost the sector’s long-term viability and draw more investors into the energy market.
Chikote also acknowledged that some Zambians may feel the current system is unfair, particularly those in more affluent areas which are receiving fewer hours of power.
However, he maintained that the government’s focus is on protecting those who would be hit hardest by continuous blackouts.
“Citizens may feel cheated, but as government, we are committed to ensuring that we curb this vice,” added Chikote.
By Sharon Zulu
Kalemba
This is a useless lie. I am getting 3 hours.
This is a useless lie. I am getting 3 hours. Makozo should come and investigate instead of dreaming. I am in Mandevu constituency in Kabangwe East and getting 3 hours!!!!
This government lives on lies. Rides on Lies Breathes Lies. Lies are it’s Oxygen.
But I know the strategy. Before the Elections next year, they will end Load Shedding… Starve the country for 2 years, then a few months before elections, give them electricity..and let the propagandists flood the country with their usual propaganda.. The Great Leader has ended Load Shedding.
But for me my interests are elsewhere…They are at the core of Governance under Hakainde. How Mr Hakainde Hichilema has governed Zambia from 2021.
That’s what will be on my Ballot next year.
Hakainde’s Executive.
Nellie Mutti ‘s Parliament
Mumba Malila’s Judiciary
This is what am voting on.
Not Propaganda.
Why can’t you just solve the problem the whole country this is a sign of failure if you don’t know.
Now I am pissed and they have lost my vote and those of my wife and two sons. I am fed up of these stupid and shameless lies. Right now I have done 7 hours of petrol on a generator from 15 hours. Power went at 5 hours. So what are these liars saying? I could have called him but they are worse than the Nakachindas because they don’t pick calls!!!!
So they are not getting my vote. I will vote for anyone other than UPND and PF!!!!
Dull pipo just apply critical thinking skills why electricity is a problem. U are busy building houses , extending all the compounds and localities which establishing power stations for those expansions being made . How do you expect kafue hydro to supply the whole Lusaka which was made during the Tudor days. Use CDF money to build more power stations which will provide electricity road areas and load shedding will end . Even if PF was there it was going to be worse than what u are enjoying now
This is true and exactly what happened in South Africa. Expansion of population with no expansion of the grid. With them initially because the apartheid government didn’t feel that, or care if, black people needed electricity. ANC kept trying to kick the can down the road.
Ba Tasila you are the dull one here displaying your poor reasoning. Don’t you know that it’s government’s responsibility to have an effective controlling agency monitoring load dynamics on the grid just like it is for communications and the cyberspace? So your big empty head does not know why there is ERB and ZICTA??? Let me teach you: One of ERB’s responsibilities is monitoring ZESCO’s equitable delivery of our electrical energy resources to all sectors of the economy and if this is not done, as is the case now, advise government way forward. If this was done, government was not going to waste finances on a dual carriage way that will carry 1 car in 50 km between Landless corner and Kafulafuta. That money would be used to commission new 400 MW solar plats in Lusaka and other badly affected regions in the country. Instead of a useless politically driven road project, they were going to reduce this debilitating burden of road shedding. Zambia needs properly designed road networks not dual carriage ways. Except for Ndola, all our towns are very poorly designed or not designed at all. Instead of having square shaped cities with square road networks and residential blocks like they do the world over, like London which is also poorly done, Zambia’s towns are all linear along lone single lane roads there are no direct roads between towns. Instead you either have to pass through Lusaka, Kabwe, Kitwe, Mazabuka, Chongwe etc etc. You cannot go north to West without going through Lusaka or South to North without passing through Kabwe and Kapiri. It’s as if after 1964, we have not moved an inch. Now your capital city ( which is a village in South Africa or Zimbabwe) has no room for expansion and no single straight six lane road.
And then with your small mind you say it’s wrong for me to build a house in Kabangwe???? Fo you even have a house yourself??? Such the f*** up!!!
Ba Tasila you are the dull one here displaying your poor reasoning. Don’t you know that it’s government’s responsibility to have an effective controlling agency monitoring load dynamics on the grid just like it is for communications and the cyberspace? So your big empty head does not know why there is ERB and ZICTA??? Let me teach you: One of ERB’s responsibilities is monitoring ZESCO’s equitable delivery of our electrical energy resources to all sectors of the economy and if this is not done, as is the case now, advise government way forward. If this was done, government was not going to waste finances on a dual carriage way that will carry 1 car in 50 km between Landless corner and Kafulafuta. That money would be used to commission new 400 MW solar plats in Lusaka and other badly affected regions in the country. Instead of a useless politically driven road project, they were going to reduce this debilitating burden of road shedding. Zambia needs properly designed road networks not dual carriage ways. Except for Ndola, all our towns are very poorly designed or not designed at all. Instead of having square shaped cities with square road networks and residential blocks like they do the world over, like London which is also poorly done, Zambia’s towns are all linear along lone single lane roads there are no direct roads between towns. Instead you either have to pass through Lusaka, Kabwe, Kitwe, Mazabuka, Chongwe etc etc. You cannot go north to West without going through Lusaka or South to North without passing through Kabwe and Kapiri. It’s as if after 1964, we have not moved an inch. Now your capital city ( which is a village in South Africa or Zimbabwe) has no room for expansion and no single straight six lane road.
And then with your small mind you say it’s wrong for me to build a house in Kabangwe???? Do you even have a house yourself??? Shut the f*** up!!!
I am now convinced that the problem of loadshedding will not be resolved unless this Minister is retired in national interest.