Government has ruled out making payments to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) defunct paramilitary wing militants without a parade and head count, fearing ghost claimants have infiltrated the ex-Malawi Young Pioneers. The former Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) militants are pressing for K1.6 billion in compensation after Malawi Army soldiers forcebly disarmed them in the infamous Operation […]
Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development has admitted that a government is facing serious challenges to collect adequate resources to finance operations of the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) amid economic turmoil. Secretary to Treasury (ST) Ben Botolo said government will scale down funding for government operations in some MDAs and asked them to prioritise expenditure. […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has appointed Ben Botolo as new Secretary to the Treasury (ST) replacing Ronald Mangani. Botolo was serving as principal secretary (PS) of Vice president and commissioner for disaster management affairs. He will be replaced by PS (admnistration) Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) Chinthu Phiri at VP’s office. Director of Cabinet Lucky Sikwese has […]
Government has organized training of trainers in search and rescue management in order to combat the common disasters in the country. Speaking in Salima, Monday, during the opening ceremony of the Training of Trainers in search and rescue course, Principle Secretary for Department of Disaster, Risk and Management, Ben Botolo said the nation need to […]
Oil and gas exploration activities on Lake Malawi will begin in the next two months, the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mines has said. Principal Secretary in the Ministry Ben Botolo told Nyasa Times on Sunday after demands from some concerned residents of Karonga that government should release the full sensor gravity gradiometer on oil and gas […]
Ministry of Energy, forests and Natural resources,on Wednesday handed over a first ever charcoal licence for commercial purposes to Kawandama Hills Plantation inside Viphya Plateau in northern district of Mzimba. Ben Botolo, Principal Secretary for Environment and Climate Change, told reporters in Lilongwe that the license aimed igniting the general public interest to own their […]
Malawi is in the process of reviewing its energy policy to among other things bring the private sector to the power generation, distribution and transmission. Secretary for Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Ben Botolo said in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday that the country need other players to fill in the power gap Malawi is […]
Malawi Government has admitted that failure for the country to produce enough energy is affecting the taking off of most of the mining projects which the country is banking on to spruce up its ailing economy. Currently the country’s sole electricity producer Electricity Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) produces only 350 megawatts while the mining industry […]
Malawi government has ordered all companies involved in oil and gas exploration in the country to immediately stop their operations until government scrutinizes how exploration licenses were granted by the former administrations which included that of Joyce Banda and of Bingu wa Mutharika. Ironically, a balk of the exploration licenses was granted during the time […]
Residents in Karonga plans to hold a demonstration against Malawian government in demanding the truth on the oil Exploration in the country responding to newspaper report which indicated that government is ignorant on the exploitation of Hamra oil Holdings activities in the northern religion. According to the Weekend Nation newspaper, the Principal Secretary in the […]
Malawi public service trade unions have rejected a 24 percent salary pay offer for civil servants, paving the way for possible industrial action. “The recurrent budget includes an amount of K163.3 billion for wages and salaries. This is 24.4 percent higher than last financial year’s provision for wages and salaries. Honourable members will, therefore, note […]
The job of one of the longest serving technocrats in Malawi’s civil service Leonard Kalindekafe hangs in a limbo following the posting of Ben Botolo to take up his post as Principal Secretary for Energy in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Mining and Energy. Kalindekafe, has been at the helm of the Energy Ministry as […]
The Malawi government says it has put in place measures to attract independent power producers in its electricity sector, which is dominated by the State-owned Elec-tricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom). Finance Minister Ken Lipenga said when he presented the country’s 2012 Budget to Parliament last month that the measures included gradually removing subsidies on electricity supplied […]