ZETDC fails to restore electricity supplies at Prospects Flats in Harare

The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has been accused of failing to restore electricity at the Prospects Flats in Waterfalls Harare for the past one week.

Harare Residents Trust indicated that the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC) has failed to restore electricity supplies to residents of Prospect Flats in Waterfalls, one week after the area was plunged into darkness by an electricity fault.

"Zesa officials contacted have been shifting responsibility from one department to the other, and claiming to be doing something, yet residents have not witnessed any ZETDC workers in the area," said the trust.  "Surprising, on Monday 1 February 2016, residents at the block of flats were advised through some residents that some ZESA officials had asked each resident to make financial contributions in order to replace the oil which was allegedly stolen from the ZESA substation."

The trust said only ZESA employees understand how this works, and it is suspected that some ZESA employees actually disconnected the area to facilitate the theft of the electricity oil at the substation.

"How else would residents explain the fact that there is electricity supply on the other side of Jan Smuts Road which is on the same grid as the block of the flats. the HRT spoke to ZESA officials since the alleged fault and they are all claiming ignorance of when the situation will be resolved, yet their officials are busy on the ground soliciting for bribe money in order to do their work. There are surely thieves benefiting from the electricity faults. The HRT continues to investigate how ZESA is conducting its business," said the trust.