Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba writes:
Load-shedding is here to stay, get a loan-ZESCO offers employees solar solutions
ZESCO is offering personal loans of upto K180,000.00 and a free 3kg LPG gas cylinder to its employees to finance comprehensive roof-top solar solutions to beat the load-shedding!
It’s like a mobile company offering its employees, a loan to write snail messages and pay for a bike to deliver such a message as their network, is no longer reliable to deliver voice calls or e-mails.
This is mockery by an incompetent management not determined to resolve the power crisis. Its a vote-of-no confidence in its own ability to supply power to the country.
Just last week, ZESCO was pleading for an “emergency” tarrif increase of upto 156% to levy harples customers.
Then ZESCO announced that it had purchased, without open or competitive public tender, off grid standby diesel generators for markets.
The mechanism for diesel supply or security of the generators have not been defined or supported. At Chelstone market, thieves already stole the cables and were fiddling to steal diesel from the newly installed standby generators.
I can guarantee you that probably, Kiyona Energy, a subsidiary of ZESCO, has been made to purchase inverters, solar pannels, batteries and associated equipment, in a corrupt procurement process, and now is looking for where to offload the goods, especially with the stiff competition on the duty free importation, hence the free loans for employees but directed to Kiyona.
ZESCO management is engaged in public looting of the company by its corrupt procurements, wasteful expenditure and a top-heavy management.
But we must remember that, these public jokes are funded and supported by an equally incompetent ZESCO Board, and government, clueless on how to resolve the power crisis.
Anyway…
For the ZESCO employees, get the loans as part of the bonanza and looting going on at ZESCO…naimwe mwalyako ka thamthing!
Just utter childish crap once again from ambassador of crap Emmanuel Mwamba.
Did this guy ever got beyond grade 12?
Mwamba would rather ZESCO employees stay in the dark or get loans from commercial lenders. This thing of being negative in everything isn’t politics at all. The corrupt will always see corruption in everything no matter how well intended the measures may be.
I have about about 9 poultry houses that Zesco can install solar panels onto and we come to an agreement
This is a good start for an internal arrangement. It is better than the enormous free units that were given to employees in the past. How can any one use 2,000 units in one month.
This arrangement aids workers and assures pay back over an agreed time. In addition the workers who use this scheme can be removed from the much need power consumption.
This idea can and should be expanded to the customers by enter into agreements to buy back excess power. This can be a mode of recovery of the loan.
This simply means each house with a roof becomes a potential power producing unit. Multiply that by 2,000,000 houses and you have created significant power generation and at the same time created an income base for those selling excess power back into the main grid. In short you have created employment. Let’s think outside the box.
This should be easier than building a new hydro power station to deal with an emergency. It requires about 5 years. What we want are quick solutions with quick results. Besides how will the landlord or tenant carry the house and run away with it. It’s a stationary asset with a direct deduction through the systems originating from supplier in this case ZESCO.
Let’s do this thing now and sort out some power issues now. You stared with employees now come to us your customers who have stuck with you for years. It’s a great opportunity and partnership.