‘Utility providers must reduce waste’

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• Okoe 11 years ago

  I attribute wastage in water distribution to poor planning and construction. The principle consideration in water generation and distribution is fire fighting besides consumption. We talk about fire fighting but no fire hydra ...
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  I attribute wastage in water distribution to poor planning and construction. The principle consideration in water generation and distribution is fire fighting besides consumption. We talk about fire fighting but no fire hydrants anywhere. What this means is when there is fire the fire fighters will do something but that will not save any property because fighting fire using trucks is woefully insufficient. Most distribution mains are exposed and when there is water stoppage you get inflow of germs causing diseases. Better designs and construction will do the trick. By the way, does Ghana have a plumbing code?

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• Kofi Tawiah 11 years ago

  Considering the amount of money we spend on our mobile phone top-up units every month with all the call drops, the electric utilities deserve some adjustment to help us power our phones at least. Maybe 166% is too much, but a ...
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  Considering the amount of money we spend on our mobile phone top-up units every month with all the call drops, the electric utilities deserve some adjustment to help us power our phones at least. Maybe 166% is too much, but a more realistic adjustment will be a win-win scenario.

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• DAN 11 years ago

  for 376 kwh..enough to run 3 bedroom house with tv,2 computers,fridge, clothes washer and dry & microwave & stove

  for 376 kwh..enough to run 3 bedroom house with tv,2 computers,fridge, clothes washer and dry & microwave & stove

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  AFARI GYAN'S HAND IN COOKIE JAR
  HW3, AFARI DJAN MUST BE JAILED. WAT A DISGRACEFUL HUMAN BEING...ONYAME EHU WOOOOOOOOO!
  YET, HE Is STILL LYING. YOUR WIFE HAS CAUGHT U RED HANDED FUCKING ANOTHER WOMAN. YET, U FOLLOW HER IN UR ...
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  AFARI GYAN'S HAND IN COOKIE JAR
  HW3, AFARI DJAN MUST BE JAILED. WAT A DISGRACEFUL HUMAN BEING...ONYAME EHU WOOOOOOOOO!
  YET, HE Is STILL LYING. YOUR WIFE HAS CAUGHT U RED HANDED FUCKING ANOTHER WOMAN. YET, U FOLLOW HER IN UR NATIVE SUIT.
  TELLING HER, I WAS JUST FUCKING HERE, BUT ITS YOU I LOVE....EEEEIIIII
  35 MILLION CEDI NTORO WEI DI3. I NO GO FIT OOOO. PEEP IN GOLD WATCH.
  MAHAMA BRIBED AFARI DJAN WITH 35 MILLION CEDIS TO RIG THE ELECTIONS. GO AND ASK JJ RAWLINGS, HE WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
  FOLKS, EACH PINK SHEET HAS A UNIQUE NUMBER. THIS NUMBER IS WHAT WE CALL THE SERIAL NUMBER. EACH SERIAL NUMBER IS ASSIGNED TO ONE PINK SHEET.
  So if for example pooling station 'A' collects a pink sheet, that number on the pink sheet is solely for that pink sheet ALONE and no other pink sheet must have that same number.
  THEREFORE, WHY THEN DO WE HAVE DUPLICATE SERIAL NUMBERS ON MULTIPLE PINK SHEETS? NA WHO CAUSE AM?
  AFARI DWAN CAUSE AM, AND HE MUST BE TRIED FOR TREASON. THIS IS GARGANTUAN DAYLIGHT TREASON TO THE NATION STATE GH.
  So, it does not matter what name you call it, serial NUMBER or no serial # every single pink sheet must have a distinct number that must be different from all the numbers on all other pink sheets.
  As long as the petitioners found that there were duplicate numbers on the pink sheets, that is HIGHLY illegal.
  IF YOU FIND THE SAME SERIAL NUMBER ON MULTIPLE CEDI NOTES. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU? COUNTERFEIT BILLS!
  If you find any 2 currencies of a particular denomination with the same number on it, then one is counterfeit. That is what the EC did.
  They printed two sets and released them into the system. ONE SET WAS FOR ALL, THE OTHER SET WERE ONLY MARKED FOR NDC.....MUAHAHAHAAAAA
  GREAT CID JOB BY THE PETITIONERS. AFARI DJAN, U ARE A DISGRACE. YOUR ILK SHOULD BE EXILED FROM GH FOREVER. NATION WRECKER!
  What EC did is a day time robbery! TREASON!
  THE SC MUST REMOVE JOHN MAHAMA N GIVE THE MANTLE TO NANA ADDO SOLELY ON THIS PREMISE. NDC SHOULD GO BACK N CLAIM THEIR 35MILL FROM AFARI DJAN.
  MAHAMA: WHY ARE ALL UR MINISTERS NON AKANS? IS NDC A TRIBALISTIC PARTY?
  ALL AKANS MUST ADVICE THEMSELVES WELL FROM THIS NDC, TRIBALISTIC PARTY....
  WHEN NPP WERE BUSY MAKING NHIS, SCH FEEDING FREE FOR ALL GHPPL. NDC/MAHAMA
  IS GIVING AWAY FREE COMPUTERS WITH HIS FACE ON THE BOXES, LIKE SANTA CLAUS. WHY DONT U MAKE
  EDUCATION FREE FOR THE KIDDIES?

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• Nii Kootse. 11 years ago

  There it is we all know!
  
  The Government is losing over 150 million Dollars monthly through tax evasion at the ports.
  The director does not care. The State does not Audit to know this problems for ages.
  
  People beg and ...
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  There it is we all know!
  
  The Government is losing over 150 million Dollars monthly through tax evasion at the ports.
  The director does not care. The State does not Audit to know this problems for ages.
  
  People beg and bribe Electricity Company, pacify Water Corporation to extend connections to homes or workshops. FOR PROVISION THEY SELL FOR MONEY! And when all is done the dumsor, dumsor starts. And no one is responsible. No one cares.
  
  But we are not finished. State Big Officials, Military Generals make more use of utility supply, but they never pay their quota. An unwritten right but fear of losing his bread the Electric or Water Boss cannot talk.
  Members of Parliament hold the state to/at ransom, no cars no sitting. No house, no work.
  They are allowed to borrow more than they could ever live to pay. Meanwhile Pastors tell us “somebody has cursed the economy”, another grave nonsense.
  So we need to pray, as if prayers are bribes for the Gods.
  
  The result Africans are laughing stocks wherever we are in the world.
  
  Now they tell us tax and tariff increases because Zongo people are rich. They just celebrated Sallah, the festival chicken, a mighty blessing, from heaven

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• SULE 11 years ago

  This article clears shows the level of rot and managerial incompetence that has characterized the operations of our institutions and the lack of any clear cut policy intervention and solutions which actually goes to the very ...
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  This article clears shows the level of rot and managerial incompetence that has characterized the operations of our institutions and the lack of any clear cut policy intervention and solutions which actually goes to the very core of the issues so identified and the political will and power to bring it to fruition, in consultation with the various stakeholders and players, with a view to establish a framework to mitigate the circumstances of such gross wastage, operational inefficiencies and losses, debt management, revenue mobilization and consolidation, investment drive and the finances to improve on the infrastructural deficits and lon term goals of these utility companies. It's completely absurd, that the needed investments needed to be made should be coming from the consumers who at best, do not even enjoy what they are paying for, let alone, access it in this era of high taxes across board on almost everything, which is conveniently, the most easiest way, as confirmed by most pundits, by a political establishment lacking in ideas, the knowhow, the mental capacity, and drive, to initiate and actually bring to fruition, well thought through formulated policy interventions, to fix the issues. The NDC gov't is a failure by all standards and Ghana clearly is suffering from this lack of resourcefulness to tackle the issues.

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