Malawi: Enough Is Enough--Escom Must Be Held Accountable for Its Incompetence

Malawi: Enough Is Enough--Escom Must Be Held Accountable for Its Incompetence

Editorial - There comes a time when silence in the face of negligence becomes complicity. That time is now. And the target of our collective national outrage must, without hesitation, be the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), whose consistent and catastrophic failures have become a national disgrace.

EDITORIAL: Enough is Enough—Escom Must Be Held Accountable for Its Incompetence

There comes a time when silence in the face of negligence becomes complicity. That time is now. And the target of our collective national outrage must, without hesitation, be the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), whose consistent and catastrophic failures have become a national disgrace. On Tuesday, at exactly 12:09 PM, the entire country […] The post EDITORIAL: Enough is Enough—Escom Must Be Held Accountable for Its Incompetence…

Escom system in yet another shutdown

Fresh from prolonged loadshedding hours during the long Easter weekend, Malawians on Tuesday endured a nationwide blackout that disrupted businesses for at least two hours. Shortly after the power outage at 12.09pm, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) issued a brief notice which, however, fell short of explaining the cause, just as in previous similar situations. A student studying using a solar torch amid an Escom outage in this fi…