Harare City Council plans to use ZESA Holdings’ billing system to recover
about $1 billion the local authority is owed by ratepayers.
If the plan is approved, council will gradually recover the
money every time indebted ratepayers purchase electricity tokens from the power
utility.
The local authority also intends to introduce prepaid water
meters across the city to complement the proposed ZESA deal.
Speaking on the side-lines of a Special council meeting on
Monday, Harare town clerk Engineer Hosiah Chisango said council has devised a
cocktail of measures to recover its debt.
“We are owed a lot of money and we want to devise new ways
of recovering that debt. Among the possibilities is that we may engage ZESA so
that when somebody pays for electricity there is a certain percentage that goes
towards our debt.
“You know how ZESA has done it before to recover what they
are owed,” he said.
Eng Chisango said if the city fails to reach an agreement
with ZESA, it will seek to recover its debt through its own prepaid meter
system. Herald
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