Escom concedes to Malawi parliament gensets hire was a goof
Escom is said to have told the parliament committee on Budget and Finance that the government decision to hire power generators to boostpower in the country has not yielded the intended purpose.
Budget and Finance Committee of parliament met Escom officials in a closed door meeting on Friday at parliament building in Lilongwe.
No reasons were given why the media was barred from covering the meeting when all other meetings are open to the media although an official from the committee said Escom asked that the meeting be held in camera.
Budget and Finance Committee vice chairman John Chikalimba said Escom officials have conceded that the hiring of the power generators from South Africa has not solved the power problems the country is facing.
“They told us that the power problems might be addressed in four months’ time after the interconnection agreement with Zambia as well as the anticipated 70 megawatts power from the solar. But give them the benefit of the doubt,” he said.
Chikalimba said the committee is expected to meet Escom officials again after three months to asses the situation.
Regular power cuts have severely paralysed the economic situation of the country.
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Malawians sazatheka, the problem is we choose leaders based on tribe and region and not on who can deliver. As I write , some are busy supporting certain politicians simply because they are home mates even when they have nothing to offer. We will continue to be making noise without anything to write home about until we change how we elect these leaders.
This project like so many other projects was just a means of syphoning money from government coffers. They used the blackouts as a means of justifying the generator programme but in actual fact they wanted to steal money from government.
Koma a Malawi chonde tiphunzile kumvesa problem and work out the best solutions.
What is the total capacity that this country needs?
How much is being delivered by EGENCO?
How much power are the generators producing?
What is the power deficit?
Why then are we still having Blackouts? is it the problem of Gensets or EGENCO is failing to generate its part?
Generators didnt come to replace the whole power generation instead to supplement the shortfall.
From my observation we are surviving on gensets than EGENCO.
Boma lakupha, Boma lozunza. Let us vote them come 2019
This is very stupid on the part of ESCOM and Budget and Finance committee. Know that this is in the interest of all Malawians not for your failures. The media were supposed to allowed in the meeting. Don’t take Malawians for a ride. We need to know what is happening with our taxes.
If there are still FAIR thinking Malawians out there still BELIEVING that this DPP government will deliver on it’s promises, they should be day-dreamers (for lack of a better word). Their MANIFESTO tells it all.
Unless one belongs to the club of these MBAVA, a BLINDLY royal tribesman or a BENEFICIARY of the ROT & LOOT, there’s no GENUINE HOPE for things getting better with this DPP government.
SHAME on MBAVA!!!
Things that happen when you are lead by pple who can not see beyond their nose. I once commented.. The challenge is that we have entrusted more power to politicians to an extent that experts are useless in decisio making.
Hope mr Perks Ligota has read this.. Why lying to the whole country and why milking the already dying cow in the name of financing maintainance/management of these so called gensets? Where are those who were singing praise on the arrive of these electric mills? How are they feeling right now? Did Malawians not said about this move kuti siyithandiza? Were you not called them haters of development? Is this the development you talked about? The big cadet Santana, where are you? Can we say the NGOs are still liers? Please mimbulu ndizilombo inu tamamvaniko chisoni
In fact the whole plan to buy back-up gen-set was a ploy to steal. CORRUPT to the CORE.
And if parliamentary committee is to look into the details of transactions of the whole SCHEME they certainly discover a lot of under-dealings. UCROOK MA ZIGOGO ndithu!!!
That’s DPP THIEVES for you, they will STOP at NOTHING to LOOT for their INSATIABLE APPETITE!
SHAME on MBAVA!!!
Oooh God please Remove the scales of blindness from the eyes of my fellow MALAWIANS so that we can SEE THAT BUSHIRI IS THE ONLY ANSWER TO OUR HARDSHIPS OTHERWISE WE WILL REGRET LIKE NEVER BEFORE IN HUMAN HISTORY PLEASE PAC CHIEFS CHURCH LEADERS INVITE BUSHIRI TO COME AND HELP GOVERN THE COUNTRY AS WAS THE CAUSE WITH KAMUZU
THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN IS NOW
MAY GOD BLESS OUR LAND
I wonder why some people are so myopic in their thinking. Bushiri is very rich, yes but that does not make him a good leader. Riches and leadership are too different things. The fact that he has a huge following in his organisation is not a quantifying factor. He can never make it in political circles. Let him concentrate in his business empire and swindling the lazy unsuspecting flocks who follow him because they want easy riches.
Ine Leader of Oppostion za Bushirizo ndiye ayi. Iyenso ndi wa money laundering ku Joni. Chomwe ine nduikuyembekezera ndi ma demo a ma CSOs wa pa 27 pano popeza mwina ndingapezerepo mwai oulawa mpandowu ngakhale enanu munene kuti ndilowera pa window. Nchifuwa chake ma supporters anga ali busy kusapota Saulos as a weaker candidate nanga APM pa ballot paper 2019 tingadzamuthe ngati? Laya?
Malawi UNITE FOR OPERATION CHOTSA MBAVA M’BOMA COME 21 MAY, 2019.
MALAWIANS DESERVE BETTER THAN DPP LED GOVERNMENT
Malawians voiced against this idea of hiring or purchase of gen sets sitting many reasons e.g. expenses on diesel, a questionable procurement procedure ,etc Lero ndimmene mwaona kuti it was a goof. You have been goofing for many times . cheating Malawians, saying electricity problems will be over in November, then changed to December after the gen sets are installed. Kenako iyayi, by January 2018. Pano mukuti after interconnector with Zambia. Kuzambiakonso magetsi akumazimazima. You raised tariffs just to rip off Malawians. Its like raising fees for a rented house saying, you want to renovate the house. You renovate the house first, then you can raise the rent.
Like seriously? No one can tell me kuti the whole escom and egenco has run out of ideas. Some things are not adding up here. The two organisations have well qualified personal whom i bealive are capable of performing there duties proffesionally. I think the problem is with political appointees who are heading the two because apart from managing the organisations, they have masters to save.
Its a shame to see that any fool connected to the president and DPP can influence procurement process in all statutories including escom. And we have nonfunctional ODPP and toothless ACB, I mean zinthuzi ndizanthu amalawi.
the problems with our statutories e.g escom, admarc, waterboards, egenco etc are way too big. Apart from having weak management team leaders, people are failing to perform their duties professionally because of fear of losing their jobs, its as simple as that. Whatever instructions that comes from the capital hill whether food or bad, the follow without questions being asked.
It’s high time we malawians should seperate goverment business and party politics. Its a shame to hear from a fellow malawian/DPP follower kuti vuto silinayambe ndi peter muntharika,i mean like seriously? that can’t be a good enough excuse, Wake up malawi please.
What pains me much is that people in power knows all these problems and instead of finding solutions they are busy buying professional opinion from technocrats in order to buy public sympathy. No wonder the trust that was there is lost even with international development partners because our professional family has also lost its face.
WE NEED CHANGE, NOT ONLY WITH LEADERSHIP BUT ALSO THE WAY WE THINK, LIVE OUR LIFE, MANAGE OUR AFFAIRS ABOVEALL, WE SHOULD LOVE OUR ONLY COUNTRY AND PRIOTISE ITS NEEDS
GOD BLESS MALAWI
somebody is rumoured to have got USD1m and used part of it to buy a struggling hotel in Mulanje, If ACB is alive can they investigate
Kumeneko timati kupita. Osangotchula bwanji? If you don’t know then just shut up
Those ESCOM team should be jail by now by compromise their profession
In other countries, all government and Escom officials who were involved in this procurement would have faced the long arm of the law…for making the government lose money on useless generators! Fellow Malawians its time we took accountability issues seriously…..otherwise these corrupt politicians will stop at nothing in trying to enrich themselves from taxpayers money. Shame on the whole DPP and its leadership for failing to lead this country.
Chakwera said it and u called him names.
Tikukayennda Friday
This is why we in the DPP are called by several names now. Do you mean such a big decision can be made without analyzing outcomes? And we are saying Malawians should also vote us into power come 2019. Let’s be serious please. I now seriously doubt if APM is really educated. This is too much.
Give us a signal Ma…….What should we do with them Ma.
Three months is enough to fire the whole lot following a due process. Surely 3 months is enough to take the lot through disciplinary process
Agreed and the ground is simple- incompetence.
Where else would such a thing happen of not in a corrupt country that is already reeliing from dire poverty. I bleed for my country Malawi.
For those who intend to contest in the presidential elections in 2019, part of the task should be to outline a feasible plan of how they intend to deal with institutionalised corruption in our ministries and MDAs as well in parastatals and the private sector among others. Its become deep rooted and systemic
APM – alamu pumani mwakula – ananamizidwa, wakwera pachulu kuuza dziko lonse kuti kuvuta kwa magetsi kutha because of these gensets.
Paja Alamu anapita okha kukayatsa ma gensets!! :,(
Zachisoni. Manyazi kwa onse akusocheretsa Alamu.
This was a means to an end–to convert tax-payers money into personal money through a bogus procurement. We should not be surprised by the results or indeed expect different results!!!
Sizimenezo mmadziwa kuti sizingakuthandizeni komapoti zinalizoti mudya nao basi tigule mpaka a Pitala Mutharika kuzaonekera pa mitini akuti surprise visit za zii kunali kudzakambirana zoti iwo zawo apeze 45% kuti asainire chekecho apo bii zichedwa kkkk kalanga malawi ineeee tsopano if it was a goof are you gonna return the genes and ask for a refund?
Generator gate.
In the near future, we will treat corruption people the same as murders…….and they have to punished by death.I am starting facebook page where i want to promote people like Chilima and Atupele to take this country next year.I think we the Malawi deserve more more better than these dogs.
Mbava za DPP zimenezo, Chakwera adanena kuti padalowa katangale pogula generators. Mbavazi zimadziwa ndithu kuti ma generators sadzagwira ntchito, cholinga chinali kusolola basi.
The decision to hire the generators was made by the politicians. It was not Escom’s professional decision. Apart from the fact that this decision has not yielded any meaning results, get it from me, it is draining Escom’s resources. The initial agreement was that the Generators will be running for 6 hours a day to feed power into the main grid. But at the moment, they run for over 14 hours and yet it is not noticeable. Escom is paying Aggreko millions of kwachas which cannot be recovered through the bills Escom collect from us consumers. Escom is running as a charitable organisation. Unfortunately, a typical Malawian who is also suffering to pay these bills do not know that this is our situation. Actually, Escom is going down the drain. If nothing happens soon to bail Escom out of this situation, Malawi will wake up one morning soon to learn that Escom is owing Aggreko billions which it cant repay. As the generators gazzle diesel millions are going into Aggreko’s accounts daily. Mayi Ngondo!!! The fact that Escom is on a downward is a well known fact by Escom management but they cannot do anything since the usage of hired generators was a political decision other than a professional decision. Escom will soon be declared bankrupt to run its operations and there will an eternal blackout in Malawi. DPP government is bunch of clueless individuals. Wake up Malawi, believe my words or Malawi will be one dark country beyond any means of recovery very soon. This is nothing but the truth. Believe me or not to your peril.
come as no surprise at all…we knew from the outset this would fail miserably
Pa Malawi
The problem of Malawi is huge. Professional are too afraid to be Objective when talking to politicians. ESCOM management was fully aware that genesets was not a solution. Solar would better.
How could they generate sufficient power on commercial basis from these genesets which demands more fuel. Infact we know that our industry is suffering despite having genesets. Genesets increases operational cost.
But stupid government always wants very very short measure just fool or cool Malawi. I listened to Manganya and this Kenyan proffesor and I said indeed in Malawi people with good ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.
Nanga mumakana chani muja tinkanena kuti za ma gensets ndi zofoooila? Pano mwapeza ndalama mumafuna kutulutsanzo ndiye kumati ngong’onyong’onyong’o…………………………………….!! Khalidwe lanu la kuba ndi kusamva ndi lonunkha komanso lomvetsa chisoni……………………..!!
Santana waona boma lakooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Evelyn Mwapasa has been vindicated. Parlament and govt please reinstate her
what’s your comment Mr Satana has a diehard of DPP always supporting crooks
@ Mabvuto
A Santana samadziwa kuti samadziwa Chilichonse. He is a follower and a sycophant. With people like Santana we surely should worried. Very worried with the kind of citizenry this country has. Thank God we have just a handful of the Santanas.
Yet the whole president looking announced to the nation one more time like many times before that blackout would never happen again. I forgot that he is a pathological liar. Kufuna kutchuka pazithu zazii.
VERY SOON THESE GEN SETS
WILL END UP IN POLITICIANS
FARMS /HOMES AS WAS THE CASE
WITH OUR TRACTORS BOUGHT FROM INDIA !!
GOD IS WATCHING !!
Fire the whole lot…
Thus the saying now shame on the technocrats you have to take them back why did you not opt for solar energy in the first place?