{"id":18260,"date":"2022-06-29T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/pura-tells-service-providers-to-up-their-game-or-face-consequences"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:11:59","slug":"pura-tells-service-providers-to-up-their-game-or-face-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/pura-tells-service-providers-to-up-their-game-or-face-consequences","title":{"rendered":"Pura tells service providers to up their game or face consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alagie Manneh<\/b><\/p>\n

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The director general of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has warned service providers in the country that they need to be prepared for \u2018fines\u2019 and possible sanctions if they fail to provide \u2018right services and quality\u2019 for the Gambian population.<\/p>\n

Yusupha M Jobe, in an expansive interview with The Standard in his office yesterday, said the days of \u201ccarrot giving\u201d without sticks are over, and that all service providers including Nawec and other GSM operators must up the ante or swallow the pill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment we start enforcing, and those who don\u2019t abide by get hit with fines and fees, you will see things getting right,\u201d DG Jobe stated. \u201cAnd that\u2019s where I am heading this year\u201d.<\/p>\n

He went on: \u201cIf you don\u2019t do what you are supposed to do, to give the people the right service and quality, we will hit you with a fine and we will make sure that those people who suffered from it get the money or the fines, and correct their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cGambians are used to [being] just given carrots, carrots. Without a stick, nobody obeys. So, we need to balance it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an hour-long interview, to be aired and published this Friday, Mr Jobe also gave an anecdote on why the prices of internet and telephone calls have become quite expensive in the country, among the highest in Africa.<\/p>\n

He also rejected assumptions that the two biggest GSM operators in the country \u2013 Africell and Qcell \u2013 have undue influence over Pura, and therefore as a regulator, it may not be able to do its job properly.<\/p>\n

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Alagie Manneh Africa-Press – Gambia. The director general of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has warned service providers in the country that they need to be prepared for \u2018fines\u2019 and possible sanctions if they fail to provide \u2018right services and quality\u2019 for the Gambian population. 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