Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) Director General Daud Suleman has said stakeholders who went on a mission to Ghana last week will submit a due-diligence report to Macra’s Internal Procurement and Disposal Committee (IPDC) for its consideration.
Macra seeks to buy a Misinformation and Disinformation Trend Monitoring System valued at $1.5 million (about K2.6 billion) from Ghana-based Hashcom.
Last week, a delegation comprising officials from Macra, representatives of the Media Committee of Parliament, ICT Association of Malawi, civil society and the media travelled to Ghana to appreciate the system.
Speaking on Friday at the end of the due-diligence exercise, Suleman said “we will compile a report” on everything they had found about the system itself and Hashcom as a company and submit it to the IPDC for its consideration.
He added that, thereafter, the issue would be taken to the Macra board for approval.
Last week, representatives of both the Media Committee of Parliament and ICT Association of Malawi said they were impressed with what they saw in Ghana.
Among other things, the delegation had an interaction with members of the National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana, who testified that they had worked on a number of projects with Hashcom.
Media Committee of Parliament Chairperson Susan Dossi said her committee would invite Macra officials to present findings of the due-diligence mission to the whole committee.
A representative of Ictam, Brian Longwe, said it was wrong to describe Ghanaian ICT firm Hashcom as a “briefcase” company.
Longwe said after visiting the company and its warehouses, he was convinced that the firm was well established
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