ZESCO Managing Director Victor Mapani has admitted that the corporation is not effectively communicating about the current power crisis. And while reiterating that Zesco would resubmit its emergency tariff hike proposal to the ERB, Mapani said, “maybe expensive power is better than nothing”. Mapani has also assured citizens that the power situation will stabilise beginning the first week of October. Speaking at a News Diggers-organised Public Discussion Forum on load-shedding last week, Mapani, in response to a question, said it was shameful that the utility company was not effectively communicating issues related to load-shedding. “What you [have said] here as if you were in my head. I have been singing this from my office [that] let’s communicate. You are clearly...

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