Zambia : 750 Megawatts Kafue Gorge Lower Hydro-Power Station: Who gets the Credit?
By McPherson Chanda I am not sure how President Lungu shouldn’t be given full credit for implementing a project which he discussed and negotiated for in 2015 as the nation begun facing crippling power shortages and blackouts. Granted the bilateral ties between Zambia and China date back to the KK era and there was a visit in 2007 by a Chinese Leader during the Mwanawasa era over which a regrettable “political quarrel” was referred to by Uncle Magande occurred. Now, if it takes 8 years for a project to be revisited, signed – off and implemented it begs the question what was not done un...