But Ms Jantuah was of the view that the concessionaire could not just get up and set tariffs for the public without recourse to the PURC. “The functions of the PURC require it to set tariffs and also put in guidelines for risks involved in operating the utilities services,” she said. She told the Daily Graphic, in an interview in Accra that there were parameters that guided the fixing of tariffs. “PURC in setting tariffs takes into consideration cost and revenue requirements and these same indicators would be applied to any concessionaire in order to ensure that service delivery will commensurate with tariff rates”, she explained. Asked why the PURC would not support the proposal of the ECG workers for the company to be listed on the stock exchange, she queried whether the leadership of the workers union had made public the said proposal for scrutiny?

Source: GhanaWeb September 12, 2016 11:37 UTC