Minister of Energy Ibrahim Matola has described the act of vandalizing ESCOM equipment such as generators and cables as equal to economic subotage.
According to Matola, lives have been lost and economic livelihood is affected by the malpractice.
“Power supply to hospitals, affecting people on life support machines, water boards cannot supply water as required and small businesses such as maize mill cannot run properly due lack of power supply,” he said.
Matola added that ESCOM has borrowed 150 transformers from MAREP to cover for the deficit and 250 trading centres (Approximately 1 million people) do not have power supply as a result of vandalism.
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