PAC president Andyford Banda says it would be ill advised for Zesco to subsidise electricity for consumers because that would kill the company. And Banda says the mining sector is not the only problematic area for the country, pointing out that financial services and agriculture sectors also have several challenges. In a recent interview, asked if he would recommend that Zesco re-introduced relief for purchase of life line units like it was at the peak of COVID-19 in 2020, Banda bemoaned that Zambians and other Africans were used to free things. “I will tell you something, and these are some of the things that I have been working on – the problem that we have as a country, as Africa,...

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