The National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) has come under heavy criticism from the general public especially commentators in the manner it is handling the issue of award of contracts to companies that will supply oil and gas to the country. Malawians, including renowned social media influencer, Stanley Onjezani Kenani, have taken to social media platform, Facebook, […]
Parliament on Thursday, May 27, 2021 adopted a ‘Special Report of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change on the Process of Procuring Fuel by National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) and the Role of Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA),’ which was presented by the committee’s Chair, Welani Chilenga.
There have been disagreements between the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) and National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) over the award of fuel contracts to two suppliers by NOCMA, with the former claiming procedures had been flouted.
Ganda speaking to members of the press at Parliament on Thursday after the fuel report presentation and adoption
By Christopher Munthali
Since its formation in 2003, the National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) has been functioning efficiently until it fell into the harness of MCP politics.
Now a coveted estate of President Lazarus Chakwera and his errand boys Zangazanga Chikhosi and Eisenhower Mkaka, NOCMA is today a looters’ paradise for that MCP enterprise.
Sources privy to the goings-on have told this publication that Chakwera, Chikhosi (Secretary to President and Cabinet) and Mkaka (MCP Secretary General) have found a good ally in NOCMA Deputy CEO Hellen Buluma in fraudulently awarding fuel importation contracts.
That is why she has stayed put, although Chakwera earlier said she was linked to the former ruling party, DPP.
After needless drama, Martha Chizuma was duly confirmed as the Anti-Corruption Bureau Director-General and boy, does she have a lot on her plate!
Even though apart from the inimitable Gustave Kaliwo Esq, no one has excelled in that post, expectations are sky-high.
Chizuma: Honeymoon is over for corrupt criminals.
Her predecessors came brandishing CVs that dazzled. With Kaliwo’s notable exception, those CVs proved to have disappointingly little or non-existent value vis-à-vis:
• Withstanding political pressure,
• Exhibiting Kaliwo-like courage when pursuing ‘Che-Jumos’ and
• In generally making the corrupt uncomfortable.
Here on Talking Blues, we wish Madam Chizuma well in her challenging but achievable task ahead.
“For the interest of justice and restitution, we shall pursue this and all financial crimes to logical conclusion.”
Malawi is a crime scene that a day hardly passes without lacking a stomach-turning story of a grand- white collar theft especially from those working in the public service and it has been established that the state-owned National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) is a criminal syndicate.
Acting CEO Helen Buluma: NOCMA is a criminal syndicate
NOCMA, a government of Malawi wholly-owned company has yet again been embroidered in theft of two million litres of diesel worth about K3, billion has been stolen between January 2018 and January 2019 with public officer working at the oil company sharing the loot.