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Two suspects arrested for theft and vandalism of Escom assets

Police at Kasiya in Lilongwe Rural have arrested two men suspected of stealing and vandalising Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Limited assets in the district. Kasiya Police Station spokesperson, Constable Mercy Chitonde, said the law enforcers arrested Rodwell Chisamba and Emmanuel Gabriel on Friday, June 28 2024 for vandalising Escom conductors at Ndalama Village. She said the police had received a report from community members over the vandalism of the conductors in the village on April 26, 2024. Chitonde said police officers eventually arrested the 34-year-old

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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

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