THE Energy and Water
Utility Regulatory Authority (Ewura) has contributed 53bn/- to the
government coffers in the past five years, Ewura Board Chairman, Prof
Jamidu Katima, told the Parliamentary Public Investment Committee (PIC).
Tabling Ewura’s performance report before the PIC, Prof Katima gave a breakdown as 2bn/- each in 2012/13 and 2013/14.
The authority’s contribution rose to
2.25bn/- in 2014/15 financial year, 6.47bn/- in 2015/16, while in
2016/17 it had a record contribution of 33.83bn/-
He told the PIC, which is under chairman
Raphael Chegeni that to honour their legal obligation to institutions
under their guidance during the same period they supported them with
33.56bn/-.
Prof Katima named the institutions as
Ewura-Consumer Consultative Council, Government Consultative Council,
Fair Competition Tribunal and Fair Competition Commission (FCC).
He said the authority did not rely on
government subsidies to run its operations, saying from levies,
application fees and licences they were capable of running the
institution independently.
Prof Katima told the committee that Ewura
prepared the Clients Service Charter, which were guidelines to be
observed, when measuring their performance as far as customer services
were concerned.
“We want to ensure clients get the best
services that is why we have come up with the Clients Service Charter,
which will oversee the best services delivery,” said Prof Katima.
He assured the committee that they would
strive for best services and revenue collected would be spent and
directed to the required sectors to enhance performance.
For his part, Mr Chegeni directed to
authority to ensure they reduce tariffs be it water or energy whenever
possible since the public needed to have in place affordable rates for
services.
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