ZESCO Limited Board Chairperson Vickson Ncube says the utility company has found itself in a situation where it is proposing high connection fees because of its failure to take tough decisions in past. In an interview, Ncube said Zesco wouldn’t be facing the current problems if it started to gradually increase connection fees in 2005. “Some of these causes, what ends up with people getting such big increases is because people are fearing, you take decisions at the right time. You procrastinate, you worsen the situation. If you have been bitten by a snake, and say let me wait and see whether this poison will move fast, by the time you make the decision to go to the hospital, it...

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