The maximum 30-year jail term with no option of paying a fine for vandalism of ESCOM assets seems not to be acting as a deterrent
* As three more culprits are found and arrested in possession of ESCOM electrical conductor wires in the Lower Shire * Two found with 200m-long conductor wire in Chikwawa, one with three bags of aluminum wire in Nsanje * In under a week and barely after a few days when another incident in Lilongwe when a Chinese national was arrested in possession of 40 bags of stolen copper wires * Amounting to approximately 18 tonnes — suspected to have…









