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Diskova
Diskova
7 years ago

Another Malawian article, another corruption scandal. These govt organisations will continue to act as cash cows for our country’s so-called ‘elite’ (aka politicians and their cronies) for as long as they lack basic fraud/corruption prevention and detection controls. It’s quite simple really. The people at the top know how to stop this hemorrhaging of public funds. Anyone with access to Google can figure out what needs to be done. But they choose not to because they are direct/indirect benefactors of these system inefficiencies! Therefore, it does not matter which govt or party is in power. As long as these loopholes… Read more »

thumbwe man
thumbwe man
7 years ago

In the first place, why did Escom engage a thief as Director of procurement Nkhono? Escom very well knew how he together with Kandi stole Escom money and when the law was about to catch on him, Kandi approved his school out to uk. He built a multimillion storey building using Escom dirty money. All this 1.3 billion is under his influence. Kandi fasciliated for his present position when Atupele was minister of mining and natural resources. Atupele udf, kandi udf and nkhono udf

concerned citizen
concerned citizen
7 years ago

Investigating the mater . End of story . we shall not hear any thing positive after the so called investigations. What is happening in our country with the plundering of public resourses by politicians , government parastatals is what has pushed people in other countries to rise against their governments. Ochepa kumadyelera when majority are suffering.

Abigail
Abigail
7 years ago

If you want to know why government is reluctant to investigate just check who were the suppliers of those materials and you will get your answer

Chimunthu
Chimunthu
7 years ago

ESCOM is disfunctional. It does NOT supply Malawi with electricity, only some parts of Malawi some of the time. It needs to be privatised and there needs to be competition. As longs as it is a government organization there will always be mismanagement and misappropriation of goods and capital. Malawi will never progress as longs as there is no regular, constant and reliable supply of electricity. Meanwhile you cannot expect thieves to prosecute thieves.

Zam\'dziko
Zam\'dziko
7 years ago

You who the Escom Board chair is….a very influential Mulhakho wa Lhomwe person. So forget any meaningful investigation on this. This shall die a natural death just like the Chasowa case and MEC warehouse fire arson. Mangani Secretary to The Treasury has just written Roads Authority Board to act on Hiwa’s case. Let us wait and see if he is also going to write to the Escom Board because this is also a case of misprocurement and therefore in contravention to the Public Finance Management Act

zoona
zoona
7 years ago
Reply to  Zam\'dziko

Mangani is wasting his time. How far have we gone with the MERA case? Tafatsani baba Mangani you are just exposing your naivete. Iwe ndithu kumangolemba zizungu zako as if the PFMA is your baby. Who told you that people dont know the contents?

Berekete Kudika
7 years ago

Escom has already failed us. I don’t remember at anytime to have been impressed with Escom services. Imagine, in addition to the usual blackouts we have from them, they even had to punish us again by grabbing our prepaid units in the name of giving us new gadgets replacing the first prepaid meters. We had to go to them again and again to give us back our units which we bought. What a nonsense! Dissolve this group and employ new ones. These people are useless

Kaziulika Chimugonda
Kaziulika Chimugonda
7 years ago

This despite the fact that is our tax, we will pay again by hiking tariff. This is internal matter as far as this regime is concern. Nobody will be prosecuted for stealing MK1.3bn. Today, this a daily song in Malawi. New-born babies know cash-gate. I repeat, this will be paid by customers.

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