{"id":1179716,"date":"2022-08-16T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/16\/utility-tariffs-ghanaians-willing-to-pay-a-little-more-to-avoid-dumsor-gabby-otchere-darko\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:04:00","slug":"utility-tariffs-ghanaians-willing-to-pay-a-little-more-to-avoid-dumsor-gabby-otchere-darko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/16\/utility-tariffs-ghanaians-willing-to-pay-a-little-more-to-avoid-dumsor-gabby-otchere-darko\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor &#8211; Gabby Otchere-Darko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor - Gabby Otchere-Darko\" title=\"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor - Gabby Otchere-Darko\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is optimistic that Ghanaians are willing to pay more utility tariffs to enjoy the services rendered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gabby Otchere-Darko says the citizenry is ready to support the government against power outages popularly known as \u2018dumsor\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Founder of Danquah Institute insisted Ghanaians appropriate efforts by the government in keeping the lights on.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9C26BCCD-101C-4A43-A6B6-31BACDE3CB79-1024x709.jpeg\" alt=\"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor - Gabby Otchere-Darko\" class=\"wp-image-10032152991\"   title=\"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor - Gabby Otchere-Darko\"\/><figcaption>Gabby Otchere-Darko\u2019s tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The outspoken politician thus expressed his happiness and optimism about same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m encouraged by the reaction of the Ghanaian people to the 27% increase in electricity tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"767\" height=\"835\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Gabby.jpeg\" alt=\"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor - Gabby Otchere-Darko\" class=\"wp-image-10031924763\"   title=\"Utility tariffs: Ghanaians willing to pay a little more to avoid dumsor - Gabby Otchere-Darko\"\/><figcaption>Gabby Otchere-Darko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt shows when you do well they appreciate, like efforts by this govt to keep the lights on and tariffs low in spite of the major challenges and will pay a little more to avoid dumsor,\u201d he said this in a tweet on Tuesday, August 16.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13ZODOkeD_lQTSN0GVROofuiKATwr0lvA\/preview\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His tweet follows the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC)\u2019s increment of utility tariffs on Monday, August 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs for electricity and water are expected to go up by 27.15% and 21.55% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The new tariffs take effect from September 1, 2022 and will extend to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The PURC in announcing the new tariffs acknowledged the economic difficulties faced by consumers but said without these tariff increases, the utility providers may not meet their mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is optimistic that Ghanaians are willing to pay more utility tariffs to enjoy the services rendered.\u00a0 Gabby Otchere-Darko says the citizenry is ready to support the government against power outages popularly known as \u2018dumsor\u2019.\u00a0 The Founder of Danquah Institute insisted Ghanaians appropriate efforts by the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1179720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[3084,9574,1299,834,1301,1367,5564,8172],"class_list":["post-1179716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-avoid","tag-dumsor","tag-gabby","tag-ghanaians","tag-otcheredarko","tag-pay","tag-tariffs","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}