ZESCO has not been a very good source of happiness lately. The company is struggling to keep pace with the crisis at hand. In the latest developments, Zesco announced that it was going to increase the loadshedding hours to 17 hours. Apart from that, the institution also initiated a process of increasing electricity tariffs. We are told that if ERB approves the application submitted, tariffs could go up as high as 156 per cent. This news has not been received well by consumers. And we have two concerns with the development. We have observed that Zesco, in an effort to pacify the situation, has given an assurance to the nation that this is the last time that load-shedding hours are...