LAST Friday, Vice-President Mutale Nalumango assured the nation that there will be no loadshedding despite the looming El Niño. She said she would be shocked if loadshedding returned. She attributed the recent outages in some parts of the country to ZESCO doing “a lot of work” to achieve total coverage, works she said are affecting distribution and transmission lines. ZESCO, on the other hand, says areas experiencing power cuts are affected by maintenance works. In its latest update last Friday, the utility said some areas of Lusaka had experienced prolonged power cuts due to planned maintenance involving the replacement of ageing electricity poles. We believe that when Vice-President Nalumango stood in Parliament and assured the nation that there will be...