Just In: Report your landlords who have refused to pay utility bills - Rent Control

Just In: Report your landlords who have refused to pay utility bills - Rent Control  

Rev Steve Kwame Edem Ampeh, the Western North Regional Officer for Rent Control Ghana, has advised tenants on how to handle landlords or landladies who refuse to pay light and water bills.

Speaking with Kwame Adu-Gyamfi during Stylish Radio morning show “Stylish In-De-Morning” Rev Steve explained it has always been like an unwritten rule where some house owners in Ghana refuse to pay light and other bills because they own the property and push their bills on the tenants.

This situation has become a growing trend in the country and Rev Steve has urged tenants facing these problems to report them to the Rent Control Department.

“If you are going through this situation and you haven’t been able to sort it out with your house owner, then you have to make a report at Rent Control and we will invite the house owner to come and explain why he or she is doing that, “.

“ No house owner may pay either the water bill or the electricity bill because the property belongs to him because the house does not generate the water or electricity but consumes it so everyone who consumes has to pay, “.

“Once you stay in the house, no law permits you, the house owner, to share your own bills for the tenants to pay. “The law even requires you, the house owner, to show the bill amount to the tenants so that they can all see the total amount that was charged,” he said.

Source:Bibianinews.com