SPEAKER orders Kapala to give a ministerial statement on Friday explaining whether or not, ZESCO is load-shedding hospitals By Angela Muchinshi FIRST Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Attractor Chisangano has ordered Energy Minister Peter Kapala to give a ministerial statement on Friday, stating whether or not, Zesco is complying with the presidential directive of not load-shedding hospitals. This was after Shiwang’andu PF MP Stephen Kampyongo raised a matter of urgent public importance in the National Assembly, Wednesday, wondering why the latest load-shedding schedule in Lusaka had included hospitals, when there was a presidential directive to spare them. “Madam Speaker, recently President Hakainde Hichilema gave directives which were uploaded in the whole nation to the effect that Zesco was going...

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