FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
Publisher
1 July 2009
D43 million expected, D37.9 million Budgeted, 29.910 million collected.
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has made its 2008 annual report public. It has requested for feed back from all stakeholders. The company has indicated its sources of financing.
The authority is supposed to receive government subvention and collect regulatory fees.
Government subventions amount to 5.5 million. The companies which are now under the watchful eye of PURA are GAMTEL, AFRICELL, GAMCEL, COMIUM, GEG, Quantum Net, NETPAGE SOLUTIONS and NAWEC.
Gamtel has paid 9 million, Africell, 6 million; Gamcel 7 million, Comium, 1million, Quantum Net, 50,000. Net page solution 50,000. The defaulters are NAWEC which owes 8.3 million and GEG which has paid 1 million out of 6.1 million. The outstanding regulatory fee arrears amounts to 8.383 million dalasis. One of the institutions that is of major concern is NAWEC. Without electricity many major and small scale enterprises cannot function. If the cost to electricity is too high, access will become a problem.
According to PURA by the end of 2008 NAWEC had total customer base of 85,349. Foroyaa will focus on each of the services in order to enable our readers to understand the role of PURA and take more initiative in writing complaints which Foroyaa could take up with the authority. This is how we can give meaning to the consumer parliament initiated by PURA in order to magnetise the participation of the people.
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