Schools run helter-skelter as WUC disconnect water

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in Mmadinare, Selebi-Phikwe and Bobonong were this week left stranded after Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) disconnected water over unpaid bills.

The disconnections started on Tuesday as an initiative by the corporation to recover P60 million of unpaid bills by both government institutions and individuals within the Selebi-Phikwe Management Centre. Government reportedly owes more than any other consumer.

Mmadinare Senior Secondary School owes the corporation P1.3 million as a bill running from October last year to date while Selebi-Phikwe Senior Secondary School (SPSSS) owes P1.2 million from August last year. Merementsi Secondary School owed P200,000 but has since been reconnected after it was realised that the school had omitted only one month bill.

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