Zesco cleans up garbage under its pylons
ZESCO has embarked on a robust exercise of clearing the heap of rubble and garbage under its power installations along Lusaka’s Tokyo Way Ring Road with a call to the Lusaka City Council to improve its service and warned of stern action against anyone found wanting.
A check by the Daily Nation yesterday, found a Zesco front loader collecting and dismantling the garbage heap at their power installation on Lusaka’s Tokyo Ring Road.
According to some Chalala residents talked to, the rubble along Tokyo started piling up when the construction works at Woodlands Stadium started. They residents said rubble collected from the construction at the stadium was dumped on the side of the road, under the power lines.
In an interview, Zesco spokesperson, Henry Kapata said the power utility company was a client of the Lusaka City Council (LCC) in terms of accessing land and waste management control and warned that those found encroaching on its property would be jailed for five years as guided by the Zesco Act.
Mr Kapata called for more collaborative efforts between the two institutions by enforcing their respective laws to stop unscrupulous people from encroaching on their land as well as indiscriminately disposing of rubble and garbage.
He said Zesco was being inconvenienced and that it was expensive for the firm to carry out its routine maintenance works as it was risky whenever there was any form of fire coming from the garbage as it caused pylons to heat up consequently causing a power failure in some parts of the city.