The Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) president, Henry Kachaje, has advised the Malawi government to privatize the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) as the current continuous blackouts are greatly affecting the growth of the country’s economy.
Malawi has had the worst blackouts this year and some business people have lamented that their businesses are going down as perishable goods are becoming a problem to keep.
But Kachaje believes the solution is to privatize Escom.
He said: “There is a need for government to privatize ESCOM if the country is to address the problems of power outage and the economy of this country has been greatly affected by the continuous blackouts hence the need for privatization.”
A few months ago, President Peter Mutharika advised Malawians to get used to the problem of blackouts until 2018 because that is the time when the situation will be addressed with help from the Chinese Government.
Recently the electricity body said that the current electricity situation is expected to go from bad to worse in January once the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi Limited (ESCOM) decides to implement its plans that will see the closure of Nkula power generating plants, media reports have said.
According to the reports, a leaked document in which ESCOM met with Corporate organisations has revealed that ESCOM briefed them that it has plans to completely shut down one of its plants, a situation that will see electricity production reduce drastically.
“The climax of electricity shut down will be in January when they will scale down for two weeks,” the reports say quoting the document.
It is said that ESCOM has warned its valued customers in the Corporate world who contribute 44% of its revenue that in January 2016 they should brace for tough times.
It has been established that among the things that ESCOM suggests will happen with the closure of its power plants is that there will be only 6 hours of electricity in a day to its customers.
ESCOM however hinted that it is contacting Mozambique and Zambia to support it with electricity regardless of the fact that Zambia itself is failing to supply electricity to its citizens.
Currently, Malawi is battling with the worst ever power cuts. People have accused the DPP led government of failing to manage and contain the electricity situation which has continued deteriorating. President Mutharika has advised that the situation will be contained after three years.
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tikuziwa mumazimitsira dala cholinga tinene kut gulitsani.
Ya Thats good decision sell it maybe privatzation ili bwino kwambiri ini big business
Thats gibalish insted of solving problems u add the other
koma gulitsani. kodi kunja sikukhala dry season
just sell us we have failed to control ourself lets depend on others,ananena kale gadaf malawi si dziko ndi munda
Just do what the private sector could do. Next you will sell MBC and public hospitals
Tadikirani kaye mumve point yangayi: Ine I think mavuto a ESCOM-wa ndi ma trick a galu uyu muthalika. Mukukumbuka kuti pakati panatchuka kuti DPP ikuganiza zoigulitsa ESCOM atangogulitsa MSB?? Koma ife a Malawi tinakanitsitsa kutero. Ndye uyu Peter-yu chomwe waganiza ndikupangitsa ESCOM ikumane ndi mavuto ndi cholinga choti adzabwerenso kwa ife a Malawi ndikutiuza kuti malingana ndi mavuto omwe ESCOM ikukumana nayo,kulibwino tigulitse. Kuteroku kape amene wayambitsa zoti ESCOM igulitsidweyu ayenera kuti watumidwa kuti aishoshe aone mene amalawi atapangire react. Ndi Agaluditu a DPP-wa. Vuto ndi loti mwachuluka a satanic
Nde azadulatu magetsiwo
kachaje,knows nothing about electricity ,he better shut up….
Olo atagulitsa palibe chaphindu ife eni nthaka .inu mukudziwa kuti azungu amadana ndi dzina la mutharika
Iwe peter ungoyelekeza kugulisa ESCOM YO uzachioona chinamuluma chakuda ngati watopa ndikulamulila ziko uzingopita komwe unachoke i know u r not malawian ndiwe folena uzingopita ku USA komwe umakhalako tatopa ndikhalidwe lakolo iyaaaaa! Zopusa basi
Apondiye agalu agulewo adzatidulitsila magetsi kuposa agalu awawa
Since the advent of democracy in the country we have seen a lot of companies being disposed off but very little goes back to the citizens. I don’t think privatising ESCOM will bring any improvement to the current perennial blackouts but will just put economic pressure on Malawians since tariff will always go up.
Bas Ingotgulisani Tonsefe Mwamva!
Bas Ingotgulisani Tonsefe Mwamva!
R u sober
Ok cndikuona kuciana kulikonse but its worth trying wa business amafuna profit thereby providing the best services to attract customers
abwele azandgulise ine ndkuifuna
dziko langa likuonongeka chifukwa chakusadziwa!!!
I wonder why these Democratic leaders are failing to run these entities..Kamuzu Banda established them & managed to run them koma a lerowa kuba ndalama basi..stupid leaders of today..