Category: Law Enforcement

* As the MalTIS at the DRTSS which developed a technical error on January 6, 2025 has been restored and is now functioning * But in the course of repair it was noted that transactions that were processed between December 4 and January 3 need verifications By Duncan Mlanjira The Malawi Traffic Information System (MalTIS) at the Directorate of Road Traffic & Safety Services (DRTSS), which developed a technical error on January 6, 2025 — rendering the DRTSS and…

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* Also encourages public to submit comments and opinions on the project through emails, phone calls or letters to Director General * The hearings began in Neno on January 13 with final session to held in Blantyre targeting national stakeholders * Mpatamanga hydro plant’s technical studies are currently underway to inform its final engineering design and prepare the tender documentation By Duncan Mlanjira As part of the continuation of feasibility studies towards the construction of Mpatamanga hydropower station along…

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* In response to serious warning from MERA over poor customer service delivery * We have expressed to MERA’s letter expressing our regret over the issues raised * While detailing steps to address them, and measures to ensure their implementation  By Duncan Mlanjira Concerns which Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) raised in a letter to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), dated January 13, 2025, were already responded to on January 16 to the…

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Minister Gwengwe during the press briefing yesterday * Thus asked to be vigilant and report any suspected case of unfair trading practices through toll-free line: 2489 * As the Ministry closes over six businesses for gross trade-related violations on the market * Ministry, CFTC and MBS will continue performing the market surveillances on a daily basis until sanity is restored By Patricia Kapulula, MANA & Duncan Mlanjira, Maravi Express In order to help in the creation of a market…

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* Also includes non-compliance to MERA’s directives and staff demanding money to rectify faults or for new electricity connections * ESCOM had ignored two previous directives the Authority had issued — on September 30, 2024 and in April 2024 * MERA thus warns it will not hesitate to take further action against ESCOM should the non-compliance continues By Duncan Mlanjira While people had been complaining amongst themselves on social media of poor service delivery in as far as reporting…

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* 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…

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* His reaction to market surveillance raids by Labour Minister Mumba and Malawi Bureau of Standards on companies and supermarkets * And closing them for non-adherence and non-compliance to labour and trading laws * We need to reflect on what is being exposed as not being a full picture, but maybe this is just a tip of a bigger story that has not been told By Duncan Mlanjira Chief Economist for South Africa-based Don Consultancy Group, Chifipa Mhango — having observed…

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