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ESCOM urges customers to cooperate with its employees as they carry out countrywide meter verification exercise

July 29, 2022

* Assigned team members will use ESCOM-branded vehicles; dressed in branded company regalia and will carry official IDs * For more information to contact the exercise’s supervisors — D. Kamanga (South) on 0888 313 111; O. Mmangisa (Centre) on 0888 354 493 and F. Kapindula (North) on 0888 874 386 * These supervisors could be contacted during work hours 07:30hrs-17:00hrs from Monday to Friday By Duncan Mlanjira From Monday, August 1, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) is rolling…

Conflicting public notices from EGENCO and ESCOM on duration of outage of power on Saturday and Sunday

July 28, 2022

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ESCOM CEO Kamkwamba Kumwenda, ours is commutative, including normal load shedding * EGENCO first announces it will take 8 hours each day on Tuesday * Only for ESCOM to say the following day it will take 14 hours each day By Duncan Mlanjira In a notice that was issued on Tuesday, July 26, Electricity Generation Company (EGENCO) alerted the public to brace for an outage of power supply on Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31 for 8 hours on both…

Public scoffs at Namiwa’s abduction describing it as staged to gain sympathy

July 28, 2022

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Namiwa with his alleged rescuer * Reports indicate that he has been found in a bush at Nathenje in Lilongwe by a young citizenry there * CDEDI confirms he has been found but declined to shed more information claiming to be working with the police on the matter * People likens this incident to Kamlepo Kalua’s self-styled abduction during the DPP administration By Duncan Mlanjira The public has gone on social media to poke fun at the casual and…

DPP likens Namiwa’s alleged abduction to abduction and killings of the Mwanza 4 in 1983 during one-party MCP era

July 28, 2022

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Namiwa, mystery sorrounds his alleged abduction * As President Chakwera, his MCP call on the Police to speed up investigations into the matter * Until Namiwa’s safety is restored and his captors are brought to justice * As well as Malawians are informed of the truth regarding the alleged abduction By Duncan Mlanjira While President Lazarus Chakwera says he is disturbed by the alleged abduction of CDEDI executive director, Sylvester Namiwa on Wednesday, July 28, the Democratic Progressive Party…

CDEDI to go ahead with tomorrow’s demonstration; With or without its alleged abducted leader Namiwa

July 27, 2022

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* All Malawians of goodwill should patronize the nationwide demonstrations * In order to express their dissatisfaction with the level of insecurity in the country and to say no to political impunity * Also demands that President Lazarus Chakwera should honour his promise to scrape off presidential immunity or step down By Duncan Mlanjira Despite the alleged abduction of its executive director, Sylvester Namiwa and court bail conditions that restrict them from holding demonstrations, Centre for Democracy and Economic…

Leader of Opposition Nankhumwa says he will hold government responsible should anything bad happen to abducted Namiwa

July 27, 2022

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Namiwa was coming from a press conference he organised in Lilongwe * The abduction took place just hours before Namiwa was expected to lead nation-wide demonstrations tomorrow, July 28 * CDEDI was also in the forefront in bringing to light a culture of theft and wanton abuse of allowances by some senior government officials * I do not want to believe that our democracy has retrogressed to the level where government is sending agents to abduct its critics By…

Prolonged 14-hour load shedding scheduled for Saturday and Sunday; EGENCO to carry out maintenance works on Nkula A and B

July 27, 2022

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* Nkula B to be shut down first on Saturday thereby reducing power supply by 100MW off the national grid * And losing 135MW the following day when both Nkula B and Nkula A would be shut down * Only 176MW will be available on Saturday and 140MW on Sunday for essential services such as referral hospitals and water pumping stations By Duncan Mlanjira Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has alerted the public to brace for a prolonged…

Law Prof. Danwood Chirwa implores on Malawi lawmakers to reject Bill proposing to increase judges’ retirement age to 70

July 27, 2022

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* The Tonse Alliance Government must leave the judiciary in a stronger position than it found it * Malawi has many corrupt judges in the judiciary and retirement is the only way of getting them out of the system * In fact, reducing retirement age could be the best way of cleaning it up By Duncan Mlanjira Amongst Bills which have been gazetted in Malawi Gazette Supplement of July 22, 2022 is Courts Amendment Bill, which amongst others, seeks…

High Court rules in favour of ESCOM in injunction case filed by Chinese company

July 26, 2022

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* Zhang Di t/a Yangtse sought the court’s intervention following ESCOM’s decision to reverse unauthorised transfer of electricity to the company’s meters and illegal consumption of electricity totalling K46 million By Peter Kanjere, ESCOM PRO officer The High Court’s Commercial Division in Blantyre has rejected an injunction application which Chinese company, Zhang Di t/a Yangtse made stopping the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) from deducting the firm’s 60% of every new electricity purchase. Lawyer Chrispin Ngunde of Tamandani…

Mzimba communities applaud government for social cash transfer program

July 26, 2022

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Beneficiary Mwazama (left) having a chat with DC Rodney Simwaka * I have managed to embark on animal and poultry farming—57-year-old beneficiary, Nixon Mwazama * I now have 26 local chickens, 10 ducks and six goats and next I will build a modern house By Aliko Munde, MANA Beneficiaries of social cash transfer program in Mzimba South District have applauded government for the initiative, which they say will go a long way in improving their livelihoods. One of the…