Guinness Ghana Breweries Plc (Guinness Ghana) has verified that water supply to its Achimota location from Ghana Water Company Ltd (GWCL) was abruptly shut off yesterday, Tuesday, May 9.
GWCL cut off water service to Guinness Ghana’s Achimota plant in Accra due to alleged bill non-payment.
The beverage company has yet to pay a GH6.7 million debt, according to the water distribution corporation.
GWCL claims it suspended supplies to Guinness Ghana after multiple warning letters to the corporation failed to convince it to settle its obligation.
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.
