Financial destitution has hit hard Malawi’s Blantyre City Council (BCC) forcing it to let off over 500 temporary workers, Nyasa Times can reveal. Officials have confirmed the council is undergoing perhaps the worst ever economic constraints that has forced it to operate on deficit. On Friday, a source in the human resources department confided in […]
Employees of Blantyre City Council (BCC) are set to go on industrial action starting next week Tuesday to force management to increase their salaries by 61 percent, Nyasa Times understands. Last month, Malawi Government offered a 61percent pay hike for the lowest paid civil servants and a five percent rise for high earners effective January 1, 2013 […]
There is a communication collapse at Blantyre City Council (BCC) after management sealed offices of switchboard operators for allegedly swindling millions of the council’s finances. The three operators have since been sent home on an indeterminate suspension, a source at the scandal rocked and financially abused institution confided in Nyasa Times. For about two weeks […]
Self-acclaimed untouchable Chief Executive Officer for Blantyre City Council (BCC), Emmanuel Ted Nandolo, continues with his boundless plundering and destruction of the council’s assets as authorities deliberately keep on giving a blind eye. Since his arrival at BCC from Council for Non Government Organisations (CONGOMA), three years ago, Nandolo has been absorbed in massive asset […]
Blantyre-based lawyer Bob Chimkango is in a fight with 26 Blantyre City Council employees who accuse him of duping them after being paid K35, 000 as fees when he represented them in a house-buying quest from their employer. According to ducuments in Nyasa Times possession, the employees sought legal help from Chimkango in 2011 in their quest to buy houses from the […]
Cracks have emerged within the hierarchy of Blantyre City Council (BCC) just few days before the expiry of an ultimatum handed on it by Members of Parliament from within the city, Nyasa Times understands. A group of irate Parliamentarians, three weeks ago, nearly sealed BCC main offices at Civic Centre demanding an immediate resignation of the […]
Tempers flared Thursday morning at Blantyre City Council (BCC) civic offices when a group of parliamentarians in Blantyre demanded for the resignation of the entire management. This happened during a meeting the council held with the lawmakers who demanded an explanation on why it is taking long for the council to release funds for projects […]
A verbal war is reportedly building up between the Malawi Police and management of Blantyre City Council (BCC) over the return of imported used vehicle traders along the city streets, Nyasa Times has discovered. Over the last few months, the country’s commercial city has seen a proliferation of such used vehicles that are being sold in undesignated […]
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Defiant Blantyre City Council (BCC) employees have entered the second day of their strike without their gang leader who was picked by police on Monday. The leader, only identified as a Mr. Kamowa from the Council’s Health Department, was arrested after he led the pack in openly daring the police and BCC management. On Tuesday, […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) workers have started staging a strike demanding salary increment of 50 percent in line with the country’s currency devaluation. The workers started downing tool as soon they returned from weekend; however the strike was not all that peaceful as it attracted the attention of Police. Over a thousand BCC employees both […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) and Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM) have disconnected water and power supply respectively at the official residence of the Blantyre City Council’s Chief Executive Officer. The residence is on plot number BW 262 situated at the uptown location of Sunnyside in Blantyre and was previously occupied by the former ruling […]
A senior officer at the Blantyre City Council (BCC) and a guard working for Cats Security Company have gone into hiding after being involved in theft cases at the council’s Civic offices, Nyasa Times can confirm. Nyasa Times reported of massive and systematic theft cases at BCC which also led to the suspension of another […]
Blantyre Police over the weekend released on bail Chief Security Officer for Blantyre City Council (BCC) who was arrested last Friday for soliciting money from Blantyre street vendors. Police said the city council employee Patrick Luhanga Chikoko was released on police bail after being charged with a minor case of conduct likely to cause breach […]
While millions of Malawians were mourning the death of their President Bingu wa Mutharika, some insatiable individuals were busy celebrating his death as to them the tragedy was their opening to enrich themselves wrongly. Last week Nyasa Times first reported how some bosses at the public broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), enriched themselves through huge […]
The Minibus Owners Association of Malawi (MOAM) has warned Blantyre City Council (BCC) of undisclosed consequences following its decision to go ahead with subcontracting operations of the Limbe Bus Depot. Nyasa Times investigations have revealed that BCC has for the past three months been in talks with Soche Tours Lodge on take over procedures of […]
Small scale traders in the city of Blantyre are openly challenging authorities from the Blantyre City Council (BCC) over its ban on selling green maize, Nyasa Times has observed. BCC through MBC Radio 1 and 2 and the country’s newspapers has been placing advertisements warning people against the sale of the green maize but our […]
Member of Parliament for Blantyre City West and former deputy minister Thom Tarsizio Gowelo has requested authorities to consider relocating Chichiri Prison to Blantyre Rural to allow other developments at the place. The former deputy minister said the prison needs to be moved away because times have change and the place is accommodating better development […]