{"id":111817,"date":"2015-04-28T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=111817"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:34:36","slug":"takoradi-poly-owes-gh%c2%a280000-in-utility-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=111817","title":{"rendered":"Takoradi Polytechnic owes over GH\u00a2800,000 in utility bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Takoradi Polytechnic in the Western Region owes the Ghana Water Company Limited and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over GH 800,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;VfJc21Jd6JQGA2SnwItG906s86tvfLr0&#8243;]Information available to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> indicates that a sum of GH\u00a2143, 489, is to be paid to the water company and some gh\u00a2721, 625 to the Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This debt according to the President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Takoradi Polytechnic Richard Ziemah is affecting the supply of water and power on campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt has been on and off situation here in campus. At a time when you need water especially in the morning, they will take it off. This problem is as a result of government\u2019s inability to pay the debts owed the utility companies. It is government\u2019s sole responsibility to pay for it, not students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government\u2019s has proposed to transfer 7 percent of utility bills in tertiary institutions across the country to students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This proposal has been met with stiff opposition from student bodies and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Takoradi Polytechnic in the Western Region owes the Ghana Water Company Limited and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over GH 800,000. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;VfJc21Jd6JQGA2SnwItG906s86tvfLr0&#8243;]Information available to Citi News indicates that a sum of GH\u00a2143, 489, is to be paid to the water company and some gh\u00a2721, 625 to the Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG). This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":111819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,16,17],"class_list":["post-111817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}