Ghc 500mill Debt: Ghana Water Company Declare On Defaulting Customers
Ghana Water Company has declared war on customers who owe the company to the tune of over ghc500million and have failed to pay since 2018.
The company has begun putting customers before the court in the various regions to retrieve the money with interest.
Among the regions where prosecutions have started is Central Region where already prosecuted 28 customers are facing the law.
The Chief Manager in charge of Public Relations and Communications of GWCL, Mr Stanley Martey, told reporters in an interview in Accra.
Mr Martey said the exercise was to recover outstanding water bills of over GH¢500 million accumulated from 2018 to 2021 to enable the company to resource its operations.
He said the defaulters included institutions and customers in the domestic, commercial and industrial sectors.
“We use this same money to buy chemicals, logistics and pay our staff. The chemicals we use are not produced in Ghana, we need to export them and this brings a lot of challenges to us”, he said.
Ghana Water Company Limited has been struggling to meet demand with increasing population, challenging weather conditions due to climate change and human activities as well as lack of adequate resources forcing it to stop these measures to ensure efficiency in management and operations in general.
