{"id":1183731,"date":"2022-08-19T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/upward-tariff-review-will-worsen-plight-of-consumers-arise-ghana-tells-purc\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T08:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:51:26","slug":"upward-tariff-review-will-worsen-plight-of-consumers-arise-ghana-tells-purc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/upward-tariff-review-will-worsen-plight-of-consumers-arise-ghana-tells-purc\/","title":{"rendered":"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers &#8211; Arise Ghana tells PURC"},"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=\"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers - Arise Ghana tells PURC\" title=\"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers - Arise Ghana tells PURC\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>A pressure group, Arise Ghana, has called for the immediate suspension of utility tariff increment.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the timing of the upward is bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A leading member, Bernard Mornah speaking at a press conference on Thursday, August 18, insisted that increment will worsen the plight of Ghanaians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, due to the current economic downturn, such a will review will be a disincentive to consumers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bernard-mornah.jpg\" alt=\"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers - Arise Ghana tells PURC\" class=\"wp-image-10031580425\" width=\"586\" height=\"440\"   title=\"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers - Arise Ghana tells PURC\"\/><figcaption>Bernard Mornah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He thus charged the utility service providers to find innovative means of raising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the key things any rational government will do in trying to resolve the current economic crisis will be to find innovative ways of shoving up domestic revenue generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bernard-Mornah.png\" alt=\"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers - Arise Ghana tells PURC\" class=\"wp-image-10032118209\"   title=\"Upward tariff review will worsen plight of consumers - Arise Ghana tells PURC\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA straight-jacket increment in utility tariffs would not cut it. It would rather be a disincentive to consumers. Consumers would default and this would plunge the country deeper into the debt crisis,\u201d Mr. Mornah said.<\/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 announced it earlier in the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pressure group, Arise Ghana, has called for the immediate suspension of utility tariff increment. The group said the timing of the upward is bad.\u00a0 A leading member, Bernard Mornah speaking at a press conference on Thursday, August 18, insisted that increment will worsen the plight of Ghanaians.\u00a0 According to him, due to the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[17025,5417,85,7712,3891,1368,7117,700,13482,23821],"class_list":["post-1183731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-arise","tag-consumers","tag-ghana","tag-plight","tag-purc","tag-review","tag-tariff","tag-tells","tag-upward","tag-worsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183731","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=1183731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}