Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:40:34 +0000 By Sandra Machima THE Patriotic Front’s promise to reform the energy sector with the possibility of discovering oil and gas over the next five years will give President Edgar Lungu and the PF the advantage to win the 2021 elections, energy expert Johnstone Chikwanda has predicted. Mr Chikwanda said as the world moves towards 2030, the issue of energy was becoming an explosive campaign issue because all the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) dealing with social justice, poverty alleviation, environment, gender and governance issues, among others, had now teamed up after realizing that until the ‘‘energy trilemma’’ was resolved, they would not achieve much in their respective focal areas. He said the Zambian energy sector had a turnover of more than $2 billion per year and therefore it could not be trivialized. Mr Chikwanda charged that the opposition United Party for National Development’s Hakainde Hichilema and his running mate […]
