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Saddique: Set up water courts |
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Boniface Abubakur Saddique, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, on Monday proposed the setting up of Water Courts to prosecute people who illegally connect water for both domestic and commercial use. |
He said his Ministry would link up with the Attorney General's Department to seek parliamentary approval for its establishment to speed up the legal process of handling illegal water connectors.
Alhaji Saddique said this when he together with the managements of Ghana Water Company Limited and Aqua Vitens Rand Limited undertook a disconnection exercise at Sukura, Russia and Kaneshie in the Accra West District.
At Sukura the team re-disconnected a client whose line was disconnected one-and-a-half years ago but had been reconnected illegally by the owner.
There was drama at Zammrama Lane in Russia when a client who had undertaken an illegal connection refused to open his door. However, he suddenly sprang out of the room hitting a TV Africa reporter in the process.
Chief Haruna Maiga, Chief of the area, agreed with a call by the minister to set up a neighbourhood watchdog committee to monitor and report such inactions of community members.
Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, Liaison Manager, Aqua Vitens Rand, said 50 percent of water produced went into commercial losses since some citizens used the product without paying.
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