We begin this week with a comment raised by guest on the show, Julius Wandera the PRO(spokesman) of UMEME (feel free to fill in your version of the acronym). Is anybody considering putting the board of directors and shareholders of that utility company out of its misery and for it to be reposessed by GoU (feel free again, to  interpret that acronym).

This if I recall is the UEB arrangement and the power blackouts of yester year, no thank you, atleast now the coat has a hook to hang on, so to speak. Not some nameless face less government organisation, a situation more aptly known as the tragedy of the commons. Today everyone knows that if you pay for curra and go a week without it, its UMEME's fault.

The problem with public ownership is that ultimately no individual is responsible for it and that results in negligence and crap service delivery or in the case of UBC, equipment disappearing and turning up in the most unlikely places.

The fact that UMEME's contract is up for renewal, their initial 7 years is up, now is the time for such questions to be raised and perhaps other service providers tapped up all except the GoU.