Hu! Ha! Vandalism fight boosted: President assents to the Electricity (Amendment) Act
The legal battle against theft, tampering, and vandalism of the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited infrastructure has received a big push following President, Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera’s assenting to the Electricity (Amendment) Act. The revised Act, which the State President assented to alongside 11 other bills, has fines increased for illegal connections and meter tampering to K100,000,000 whereas the maximum jail term for such offences is 10 years. The Act covers offences on ESCOM infrastructure committed by the Corporation’s members of staff, former employees and