By Vincent Gunde
Ever since the DPP led government of President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika took over government from the MCP, blackouts have been the order of the day, the situation was the same as from 2014 to 2018.Board sets policy targets to improve ESCOM service delivery
Many Malawians have questions without answers on why DPP comes in government with blackouts while in the other governments the situation was different from what people are seeing today.
If there’s sabotage by ESCOM employees, who is behind all this for power supply to be back as was yesterday that ESCOM was a trusted partner to the country’s development projects.
While questions for ESCOM are still piling and piling, Malawians have been awaken with reports that ESCOM has suspended its Director of Finance Brian Ndisale pending investigations for the alleged flouting of procedures in the procurement of MK8 billion worth of motor vehicle tyres from Mapeto Tyres company.ESCOM hosts energy experts, calls for regional collaboration
Reports coming from ESCOM are indicating that the quantity of tyres procured can fit each and every ESCOM vehicle including those grounded ones and excess tyres are left for future use.
Some years back, there were reports that procured Khaki envelopes (small and big in size) for office use to last for 22 years, the envelopes costed ESCOM MK 6 million while the actual figure for the cost was established to be MK3 million.
In 2022 there was a call for the then government of the MCP of President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera to prosecute some ESCOM Directors for taking MK14 billion into their pockets with nothing to show on the table.FDH Bank supports Escom PIESA conference with K20 million
A concerned citizen of Malawi Mrs . Elizabeth Kaliza Banda of Area 51 in Lilongwe, has asked the DPP led government to come out to the open why ESCOM is frequently hit by mis procurement cases as compared to other parastatal organizations?
Kaliza Banda has noted with a great concern that people who are being arrested are small fishes while big fishes are still swimming outside prisons a development which is worrisome to the poor people in Malawi that government is not looking after their welfare.
She said if Malawi is poor today, it is not that God has cursed this nation but the crooked people themselves are the ones that have cursed this country through corruption and stealing in government.
” Why letting poor people suffering with punitive taxes when government has untapped resources in the people who have stolen from it?” Questioned Kaliza Banda.
She said time has now come for government to recover from what was stolen in its coffers advising the government of Malawi that the late Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli did it and Malawi can do the same.Chinese National, 3 Malawians arrested for vandalizing ESCOM assets
Kaliza Banda has finally advised government to grant amnesty to all those suspected to have stollen billions of Kwachas in its coffers for a period of 90 days and who ever fail to pay back, government must move swiftly to confiscate the property and forfeit it without sending any suspect to Prison.