{"id":13660,"date":"2015-12-09T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=13660"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:49:25","slug":"mccci-to-meet-on-fuel-import-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/mccci-to-meet-on-fuel-import-change\/","title":{"rendered":"MCCCI to meet on fuel import change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI) plans to meet this week to discuss and take a stand on government\u2019s decision to shift the responsibility of fuel importation from a private consortium of Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) to state- owned National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma).<\/p>\n<p>MCCCI president Newton Kambala said in an interview that at a meeting held last week, the MCCCI council failed to reach a consensus on the matter, hence they have to meet again to arrive at a decision on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to come up with one common stand on the issue at hand,\u201d admitted Kambala.<\/p>\n<p>He said the issue required proper scrutiny and input from all its stakeholders before a decision was made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an issue that is at the heart of the economy and doesn\u2019t need to be rushed,\u201d said Kambala.<\/p>\n<p>President Peter Mutharika last week approved a set of reforms in the energy sector which include the shift in the role of importing fuel for the country from PIL to Nocma.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika\u2019s option was in sharp contrast with recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, Environment, Energy and Climate change which supported the maintenance of a private sector entity for bulk importation of petroleum into the country.<\/p>\n<p>PIL was by Monday this week yet to be officially communicated to about the matter by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI) plans to meet this week to discuss and take a stand on government\u2019s decision to shift the responsibility of fuel importation from a private consortium of Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) to state- owned National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma). MCCCI president Newton Kambala said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}