Guinness Ghana
Breweries Plc (Guinness Ghana) has confirmed that water supply from Ghana Water
Company Limited (GWCL) to its Achimota site was abruptly cut yesterday,
Tuesday, May 9.
GWCL
disconnected water supply to Guinness Ghana’s site at Achimota in Accra over
alleged non-payment of bills.
According to the
water distribution company, the beverage company is yet to pay a debt if GH¢6.7
million.
GWCL says it cut
supply to Guinness Ghana after several caution letters to get the company to
settle its debt failed.
In response,
Guinness Ghana accused GWCL of taking the action without recourse to
resolutions agreed upon from a meeting on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, chaired by the
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources and attended by the Managing
Director of GWCL and the leadership of Guinness Ghana.
“The outcome of
the meeting was to await the result of the PURC’s investigations and to hold a
tripartite meeting between GGBPLC, GWCL and the Public Utilities Regulatory
Commission (PURC). During this period, no disconnection was to be effected,”
the company said in a statement.
The beverage
company insisted that it has been fully compliant on all bills to GWCL “based
on our classification under the industrial rate, pending a resolution of our
petition to the PURC on the arbitrary reclassification by GWCL. Guinness Ghana
has openly engaged Ghana Water Company Limited, the Public Utilities Regulatory
Commission and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources on numerous
occasions to resolve its concerns following the arbitrary reclassification of
the business in the September 2022 tariff adjustments,” Guinness Ghana added.
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SOURCE: CITINEWS
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