Mota-Engil, a contractor rehabilitating of the Liwonde-Mangochi Road, says it has trebled works on the rehabilitation of the road to beat the deadline. The company’s spokesperson Thomas Chafunya said on Monday that the rehabilitation works were progressing well, adding that about 35km had already been completed. He said 60 percent of the works in constructing […]
Mota Engil Construction Company which is constructing Njakwa- Livingstonia Road says it will subcontract two companies to speed up the construction works of the project. According to Hastings Shaba of FN & Partners whose consulting company is working with Mota Engil on the project, construction of the road has delayed due to rocky and mountainous […]
The First Lady Professor Gertrude Mutharika, through the Beautify Malawi Trust (BEAM) on Tuesday handed over medical equipment worth K90 million to Chatinkha Maternity Wing at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, courtesy of Mota Engil. The equipment included Ultra-sound machines, sterilizers, examination beds and mattresses, oxygen concentrators, pregnancy test kits as well as […]
Vale Logistics and its partner Mitsui of Japan have unveiled a new ambitious railway rehabilitation program for Nkaya-Mchinji route. Officials broke the news during an official launch of a US$1billion (K750billion) Malawi stretch of the Nacala Corridor Railway line. ” We are in final stages to work with Malawi government and get the Nkaya-Mchinji railway […]
Vale Logistics is set to launch its US$1billion (K750billion) trans-Malawi railway project that connects two pivotal points of its operations in Western and Eastern Mozambique through Malawi. Created and built by multidisciplinary construction company Mota Engil Africa, the railway line is part of the Nacala Development Corridor that seeks to benefit several SADC countries Malawi […]
Communities along the Nsalu-Kabudula-Kasiya-Santhe Road have expressed happiness with progress in the construction of the road. The road, which stretches from the Lilongwe Old Airport through Kasiya to Santhe and connects to Kasungu, is expected to improve lives of communities in areas it is passing. Speaking during sensitisation meetings organised over the weekend by the […]
A boss for Portuguese industrial conglomerate Mota-Engil attempts to sexually attack a Malawian female worker was foiled after she shouted for help on the Thyolo-Makwasa road which the company is currently constructing. The incident happened on last Friday, March 17, 2017 when the boss, only identified as Dinero picked up Violet Pheniya who works as a […]
Staff at Malawi Shipping Company and Malawi Port Services are on strike, to force their employers Mota Engil increase salaries. Transport Workers Union member Joseph Chimasula said salaries at the Mota Engil owned companies are pathetic. “Some of them get as low as K30000 per month, which is not in tandem with the current cost […]
Officials at the Ministry of Labour say they are investigating reports that an international contractor, Mota Engil is recruiting foreigners for junior jobs. Labour ministry spokesperson Symon Bvundula said his office has not yet received the letter of complaints from Malawian workers at Mota Engil that management was hiring watchmen, cooks, builders and welders among […]
Construction giant, Mota Engil is bankrolling Agriculture minister George Chaponda in his bid to become Malawi’s next president in 2019, Nyasa Times can reveal. Insiders said the company has been funding some of Chaponda’s strategies including putting up together a media team to champion his cause. “They are paying for all his expenses and even his […]
Malawi’s Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) has finally been funded to scrutinise evidence that former president Bingu wa Mutharika has over K92 billion stashed in offshore accounts. The late Mutharika is accused of getting 10 per cent of all government contracts offered to Mota Engil as kick backs, accusations the government denies. Chairman of […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) in Malawi will finally launch an investigation into claims that the country’s former leader late Bingu wa Mutharika – brother to the incumbent Peter Mutharika – has cashgate proceeds about K61 billion ($85.3 million at current rate) stashed in offshore accounts . According to forensic reorts, the looting of public funds started […]
It is common knowledge that Malawians are facing numerous problems— r a n g i n g from food shortaged to joblessness. This high level of suffering has forced most people to pose the question: “Where is Malawi leading to?” Probably, government has an answer to this question. From time to time the President assures […]
Lakeshore residents in the north have threatened to take unspecified action against government for its failure to clarify on the allegations that it has “sold” the Lake Malawi to a Portuguese company Mota -Engil. In parliament last week, the Mzimba West lawmaker Harry Mkandawire challenged the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government that it has sold […]
Member of Parliament for Mzimba West, Harry Mkandawire has made another serious claim in parliament against Portuguese construction and industrial conglomerate Mota-Engil, saying the firm leased land on Northen Malawi for 35 years but has not paid anything. “Mota-Engil leased the Northern Malawi for 35 years and it has not paid a single penny to the […]
Malawi Parliament on Tuesday afternoon rejected a newspaper report as evidence on claims by Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire that the government had sold Lake Malawi to a Portuguese construction company, Mota Engil. First deputy speaker Esther Mcheka Chileka said the weight of evidence could not be accepted in the Chamber because it was a […]
Malawi Parliament was nearly thrown in turmoil on Monday afternoon after Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire claimed the government has sold Lake Malawi to Mota Engil, a Portuguese construction company with close links to the President Peter Mutharika family. Mkandawire said he had evidence to show that the government of Malawi had given a 40 […]
Head of Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Lucas Kondowe has disclosed that the graft-busting body had instituted investigations into the former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s accumulation of at least K61 billion ($85.3 million at current rate), alleged to be stashed in offshore accounts but yielded no results. Late Mutharika’s wealth was established by YMW Property […]