Man jailed for five years for vandalising ESCOM materials
A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to five years imprisonment at Chilinga in Phalombe District after being convicted for vandalizing the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited assets. Chilinga Second Grade Magistrate, Steve Samuti, slapped the convict—Ofesi Mangani—with the jail term on January 20, 2024 after pleading guilty to the offences of theft and vandalism of ESCOM materials. Officers from Chilinga Police Unit, acting on a tip-off, arrested Mangani on October 10 2023 when they found him in possession of aluminium conductors, earthwire, bobbins, D-iron and