The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) summons 85 institutions and people in the Tamale Metropolis to appear before the Tamale District Court for non-payment of water bills.
These customers still haven’t paid their past-due bills, even after being disconnected and followed up with by GWCL officials.
In a Citi News interview, monitered by ATLFM, the head of Public Relations for Ghana Water Company Limited, Stanley Martey, urged all defaulting customers to honour their bill obligations to avoid prosecution.
“The Ghana Water Company has for some time been encouraging customers to pay their bills because our operations are dependent on the bills our customers pay. We do not take customers to court unless they become recalcitrant. However, we have realized that some customers are taking us for granted, so we have been prosecuting recalcitrant customers.”
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“We are prosecuting some customers in the Northern Region because they are being recalcitrant. When customers refuse to pay, it affects our operations because we invest the little money we collect from customers back into the system to operate, get water to our people, maintain our equipment, and do what is expected of us. This will not be the last time we prosecute recalcitrant customers. We are urging our customers to pay their bills.”
Mr. Martey also revealed that the authorities are looking into 31 clients for potential illegal water connections.
