The parliamentary committee on natural resources and the environment has commended the judiciary for giving stiff punishments to charcoal burners.
This follows the conviction of eight people to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour each by the Lilongwe High Court.
The eight were arrested for felling trees and using them to burn charcoal.
Chairperson for the committee, Werani Chilenga, said the committee is happy that that the judiciary is giving stiff punishments to people found with forest products.
”We must recommend the judiciary for the good development but we wish the punishments were stiffer than the current ones,” said Chilenga.
He added that there is need for concerted effort to end environmental degradation.
Currently, some parts of the country are experiencing dry spells which experts say have been partly caused by massive cutting down of trees in the country.
Most households in the country collect and use fuel wood as their main source of cooking energy.
Poverty is also believed to contribute to environmental degradation in the country as most people cut trees in order to burn charcoal.
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Provide them with jobs
In developed countries electricity works together with gas, making peoples life easily for their needs, and in Malawi’s Urban and rural areas, where is Gas?
As you are pondering now with Tanzanian about gas in our lake Malawi, where is the outcomes?
Secondly is on coal issue that Malawi itself has the cleanest coal in the world found in part of Mzimba district,
When will miming start to produce coal and support energy’s consumption?
You are totally wrong Mtalika with your guys, to silence Innocent Malawians like fools in this regard.
Aforest adziwamanganso angomwa mowa ku Golomoti phili likutha mpaka atsekula minda
That’s the only way for them to find food.
Koma kumanga osauka mmene munayambira kuba ndalama za boma muja adzakumangani liti anthu oyipa inu