Author: Cliff Mnduwira

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

Minister of Energy, Ibrahim Matola, made a  visit at a meeting for ESCOM Limited Distribution Managers and Procurement at Magetsi House in Lilongwe on Wednesday, January 24, 2024. The  Minister expressed his appreciation for the work that Distribution is doing within ESCOM to ensure efficient service delivery. He said that multilateral and financial institutions were coming forward to partner with ESCOM because of the positive impact the power utility company is making in the country. ESCOM COO Maxwell Mulimakwenda told the Minister that the meeting was discussing

lectricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says the upgraded Kanengo and Lilongwe Old Town Power substations will facilitate connection of 81 000 new electricity users in Lilongwe and surrounding districts to the national grid. Speaking in an interview during a site visit of the Kanengo Substation in Lilongwe yesterday, Escom chief executive officer Kamkwamba Kumwenda said the substations, whose upgrading was funded by the Japanese Government through Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), will help the power utility to clear a backlog of power connection applications in the

A 27-year-old man identified as Geoffrey Matewere has died after being electrocuted while tampering with Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited property in Mangochi District.  Monkey Bay Police spokesperson, Alice Sichali, said the incident happened on January 15 2024 at Nankhwali Parish in Traditional Authority (T/A) Nankumba in the district.  She said on this particular day, eye witnesses saw the deceased sneaking into the premises of the parish reportedly with the intention to steal.  “Matewere interfered with the ESCOM’s main switch which was outside the parish,

Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited Asset Mapping Project Coordinator for the Central Region, Brian Mbewe, says the project will help improve faults handling through easy tracking of customers’ locations.   Mbewe said this in an interview while giving an update on the project which seeks to map the low voltage network for ESCOM.   “The project started in 2018 with the mapping of high voltage network. However, this final phase started in August 2022 and is expected to conclude in February this year,” he said.