{"id":50828,"date":"2023-08-07T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/residents-owe-gobabis-n-61-million"},"modified":"2023-08-07T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:53:31","slug":"residents-owe-gobabis-n-61-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/residents-owe-gobabis-n-61-million","title":{"rendered":"Residents owe Gobabis N$ 61 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The Gobabis municipality is owed N$ 61 million for water and electricity by residents, private companies and government agencies.<\/p>\n

This was revealed to Nampa by the town council\u2019s spokesperson Frederick Ueitele in a recent interview. \u201cThe challenges of<\/p>\n

non-payment of municipal accounts are mostly from some residents, government offices, agencies and some institutions from the private sector,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n

The municipality currently disconnects services, especially water and electricity, to residents who do not honour their<\/p>\n

financial responsibility towards it.Ueitele said the council resolved some time ago to give preference to pensioners within the community by granting them lower tariffs than those paid by other residents in the town.<\/p>\n

He also informed this agency that the Gobabis municipality does not have any contract with Redforce or any other debt-collecting agency.<\/p>\n

Instead, he said, they are trying by all means to encourage residents in the town to pay their debts without being forced by a third party. \u201cThe municipality would like to make use of this opportunity to encourage our residents to honour their financial obligations by paying their water and electricity bills, and visiting the office to make arrangements for paying whenever there are any challenges for payments,\u201d he added. The municipality also<\/p>\n

started with a campaign of encouraging residents, especially those living in informal settlements, to migrate from the current water meters to pre-paid water meters, which, according to Ueitele, has a special price for pensioners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe municipal services provided to the informal settlements are all prepaid.<\/p>\n

Thus, the problem is non-existent. The municipality gets pressure from NamPower and NamWater for outstanding<\/p>\n

bills, which led the municipality to enter into payment plans for these respective companies not to disconnect these services at the town,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n

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