Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:35:34 +0000 By Aaron Chiyanzo and Charles Musonda TERRORISTS who vandalised two pylons on the 330 KV Kafue West-Lusaka West line had a clear intention to paralyze the economy and plunge parts of Zambia into total darkness as the targeted line supplies power to the mines and industries in Lusaka. The deliberate act also put many lives at risk, including those of the saboteurs, because the 330KV line had capacity to wipe out any living being within a kilometre radius had the ground been wet. Government has since warned that people behind the macabre act in an attempt to suffocate the country’s major economic activities would not beat the State. Minister of Energy David Mabumba said it was clear that the terrorists’ wanton intention was to paralyze the national economy because Zambia’s economic mainstay was mining whose operations had been negatively affected. The latest act of terror saw vandals tamper […]
