A wealthy Asian businessman Karamat Ullah Chaudhry faces arrest over investigations of the procurement of a new mobile laboratory fuel testing van by Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera). Fiscal police have already arrested Mera chief executive officer Collins Magalasi and Bright Mbewe from Mera’s procurement department over the contract that relates to the procurement of a […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) chief executive officer Collins Magalasi, entrepreneur and socialite Dorothy Shonga aka ‘Cash –Madam’ together with two other employees at Mera appeared before Lilongwe Magistrate Court on Wednesday where they were formally charged with three criminal offence after their arrest. The State told the court that the suspects were brought in […]
Malawi Police Services have arrested entrepreneur and socialite Dorothy Shonga, who owns D.C Brand Cloud, a local branding and marketing company, popularly known as ‘Cash-Madam’ after being implicated in bootleg deals at Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA). Police arrested Shonga on Tuesday following investigations that she was given a contract of supplying golf shirt to […]
Malawi Police Services in Lilongwe have confirmed the arrest of Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) Chief Executive Officer, Collins Magalasi over reasons the law enforcers are yet to disclose buy Nyasa Times understands its part of “clearing the rubble of corruption. ” The National Police public relations officer, James Kadadzera, confirmed the development, adding that […]
Newly-appointed board member for Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Lincoln Bailey who has Jamaican roots has opposed to the issuing of a single buyer license to yet another state power company Power Market Limited (PML). Bailey, who runs Rukuru Power Company Limited, an Independent Power Producer (IPP), has opposed to the operationalization of PML through a […]
The veil is certainly off the face of the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) and it is now time for the poor taxpayers to see the plunder that has been obtaining at their organization. MERA is mandated by Parliament to regulate the energy sector in Malawi in a fair, transparent, efficient and cost effective manner […]
Newly-appointed Minister of Energy Newton Kambala on Wednesday made a tour of Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) head offices in Lilongwe on his first familiarisation tour since his appointment last week and issued a stern warning against officials engaging in bootleg deals. “The current administration wants efficiency and anybody without efficiency will have to go away,” […]
Entrepreneur and socialist Dorothy Shonga, who owns D.C Brand Cloud, a local branding and marketing company, popularly known as ‘Cash-Madam’ is on the spotlight after being implicated in bootleg deals at Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA). Shonga took to social media to confirm that her residence was raided by Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) and Malawi […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has penned the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), asking the graft-busting body to investigate Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) for a probable violation of the laws in the procurement of a new mobile laboratory fuel testing van. HRDC says it has received some information, pertaining to the contract MERA awarded to City […]
A call by Vice President Saulos Chilima last month to Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) to further reduce fuel prices is bearing fruits as the fuel regulatory body has announced that pump prices of fuel have been revised downwards, a social and political observer has said. During a media briefing in Lilongwe on April 8, […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has resolved that the pump prices and wholesale prices of petrol, diesel and paraffin be revised downwards. MERA’s chief executive director Collins Magalasi says in a statement that the move follows assessment of the impact of FOB prices on the international market and exchange rate movements on the landed cost […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) chief executive officer Collins Magalasi has said the regulator does not copy international fuel prices but consider other local factors. Magalasi was reacting to remarks made by the country’s estranged vice-president Saulos Chilima that last Saturday’s fuel price cut is too little. Chilima said in his televised news conference on Wednesday […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has revised downwards prices for fuel following President Peter Mutharika’s directive on Saturday evening. Mutharika issued the order hours after the fourth case of the coronavirus in Malawi was confirmed. He ordered the authority to reduce fuel pump prices with immediate effect in order to reduce transport costs. Mera responded […]
As a strategic approach in responding to any impending disruption of supply of fuels, Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has activated the National Emergency Response Plan. This follows a lockdown in Iraq, which is the one of the world’s main supplier of fuel, due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. A statement released by […]
The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has reduced prices of diesel and paraffin while maintaining the pump price for petrol. According to MERA, a litre of Petrol pump price remains at K930.00 while the recommended pump prices for Diesel is K887.00 per litre from a ruling pump price of K924.00. Paraffin is now at K693.60 […]
The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has issued a stern warning to filling station owners and operators that their businesses risk closure if they do not comply with minimum standards and regulations. MERA chief executive officer, Dr Collins Magalasi, issued the warning in an interview on the sidelines of the fuel retailers’ sensitisation workshop in […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has announced the upward adjustment of fuel prices by as power outages are worsening but has maintained the price of paraffin. A statement from MERA says pump petrol price is now at K930.00 per litre, diesel at K924.00 per litre while paraffin remains at K710.50 per litre. MERA says this […]
Energy regulatory body, the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has closed down 32 fuel service stations across the country due to substandard fuel. Mera chief executive officer Collins Magalasi said his organization was appalled that the service stations were selling substandard fuel but did not say where the service statiobs were getting the fuel from. […]