ZESCO says discussions on how government will financially help support its alternative power initiatives, such as the installation of gensets at critical institutions are ongoing. Zesco Spokesperson Matongo Maumbi has assured traders that they will not be paying for diesel to be used in the generators that the power utility is installing at selected markets. In an interview, Wednesday, asked if Zesco was in talks with government on the possibility of helping it to bring in cheap diesel to support the corporation’s genset initiative, Maumbi said such discussions were ongoing. “Those talks could be on going in the background but basically for now it is just in the interim, it’s not designed to be a permanent solution to the places...
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