Government Extends Free Water, Electricity Package To March 31

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that, with the continuing difficulties occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, government has intended to continue to support the most vulnerable in the society.

He said that, government will continue to pay the electricity bills for 1 million active lifeline customers for the next three months.

Addressing the nation from Jubilee house on update No 21, measures taken against the spread of Covid-19 in the country, President Akufo-Addo added that, “all 1.5 million customers of the Ghana Water Company, whose consumption is not more than five cubic meters a month, will not pay any bills for the next three months, i.e. for the months of January, February and March.”

He said that, with Ghana set to procure her first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccines within the first half of the year, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Nana Akufo-Addo advised that, the nation is not yet out of the woods and that the people should continue down the path of strict adherence to the protocols.

“There is nothing beyond us, the Ghanaian people who were the first in sub-Saharan Africa to gain our freedom from colonial rule. We can do it.” He said