By GIDEON NYENDWAZESCO has justified engaging foreign companies to supply wooden poles indicating that local contractors have no capacity to supply the 150, 000 bulk of poles that it needs urgently.Zesco board chairperson, Vickson Ncube has said this decision however, did not in any way mean that Zambian companies were left out.He said this when he featured on a radio programme to discuss the reasons they decided to import the wooden poles.Mr Nc’ube said if Zesco wanted to get the 150, 000 poles today from local companies they could not get them because they had no capacity to supply them immediately.“It’s an emergency. We need these poles very fast and people are waiting to be connected,” he said.He said that their decision to outsource was not for the future, it was just arrived at because they were dealing with an emergency that needed to be handled quickly because the backlog of people who had already paid […]
Zesco justifies giving poles contract to foreign firms
