ENERGY Minister Makozo Chikote has disclosed that Zesco is currently losing about $35 million per month due to load-shedding. And Chikote has encouraged citizens to exercise patience in regards to expecting reduced load-shedding hours, saying some of the interventions that government was implementing to address the power crisis were long term. Speaking when he featured on Prime TV’s Big Debate programme on Wednesday, Chikote said Zesco was in a bad shape in terms of revenue collections. “The utility company of ours Zesco has really faced serious losses arising from the crisis that we are going through. I can tell you that Zesco is really in bad shape in terms of the revenue collection. Because you see, the more hours that...
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