ECG: Expect more tariff increments if government doesn’t intervene

ECG

Power distributor, ECG has cautioned domestic consumers they may be experiencing more than 79 percent increment in tariffs because the government has kept subsidies at the same rate.

The Company’s explanation follows complaints by consumers that some of them are being charged as much as 100 percent increment in electricity bills instead of the recent 79 percent increment announced by the utilities regulator.

Public Relations Officer, Gyei Larbi told XYZ News the government has the greatest say in the matter of tariff adjustment.

“PURC don’t give subsidies, it is government that gives subsidies, so until the Government decides to upwardly adjust the subsidies for the various bands and categories of consumers, those people will have to contend with the current situation”.

Meanwhile The Ashanti regional branch of the Trades Union Congress says it expects the national leadership of organized labor to meet on a report by a technical committee set up by the Presidency to review the new tariffs.

The committee recommended in its report that any increment beyond 60 percent could hurt Ghanaians and industry. It nonetheless said reducing the recently increased tariffs was untenable.

The Ashanti branch told its members to start hoisting red flags ahead of a possible industrial action after the TUC’s extended ultimatum to the government to slash by a third, the recently increased tariffs, has expired.

Source XYZ Ghana News

ECG: Expect more tariff increments if government doesn’t intervene