Zesa disconnects 1500 Households
Stephen T Chifamba
HARARE,Zimbabwe. (NewsoftheSouth)- ZESA Holdings disconnected over 1 500 households in Stoneridge Phase 1 in Harare South after discovering that a fired former employee of an approved contractor made the connections without following the normal procedures.
The illegal connections are believed to have been done by Peni Jaison (31), who was once employed by a Harare company called Ethood Electrical Engineering Company, but operating as Luckstone Concrete.
Luckstone Concrete had been contracted by the residents to connect electricity in the area, but some residents felt the charges were high and hired Jaison, who used materials left on site by his former employer and cables believed to have been stolen from Zesa.
Jaison has since gone into hiding and police have launched a manhunt.
A team from the police and ZESA loss control officers yesterday morning visited the area and held a brief meeting with some of the residents before disconnecting power after informing them that it had been illegally connected.
In an interview, Stoneridge residents’ chairperson for Cluster R, Mr Alfred Chadzamira, said when they contracted Luckstone, they were asked to pay US$195 for each household for the work to be done.
“Before we paid the money, some of the residents later felt that the company had breached our contract and that is when we engaged Peni Jaison. We didn’t know that he had been fired by the company,” he said.
He said after contracting Jaison, he started illegally connecting electricity and so far about 1 500 houses now had electricity in the suburb.
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