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In compliance with new international requirements for transfer of electricity prepayment tokens, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) will from June 1 launch a Token Identifier (TID) project that will reconfigure all prepaid meters for customers. Announcing the development on Tuesday 16th May 2023 in Blantyre, ESCOM’s Chief Operations Officer, Maxwell Mulimakwenda emphasised that every country in the world is being required to carry out this system upgrade, saying the last operation was done in 1993. He said TID has a lifespan of 31.9 years and the

Court convicts 3 over vandalism of ESCOM equipment Fazilla Tembo (Nyasa Times) Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court has convicted three men for vandalizing Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) equipment worth over K22 million. The equipment are four spans, high voltage oak line of 1, 200 metres long, of 100 millimeters each. The convicts are Michael Kambalame, 26, Umali Rashid, 35, both Area 36 residents and Chikafa Dzuwa, 41, from Chinsapo. Three convicts carrying ESCOM equipment which they vandalised Lilongwe Police Prosecutor Sub Inspector Vincent Ntalawe said