Minister of Infrastructure, James Musoni, has warned the Water and Sewerage Cooperation to improve on its working proficiency with recruitment of more professionals.
The minister said this while officiating at the disclosure of the WASAC new managing director, Aimé Muzola,whom urged to rectify on all derailing issues since they were identified.
Musoni noted that the cooperation was in fact respecting its waste working environment like that of EWSA and needed to be redefined to solve the persisting energy challenges.
That sector has for many years experience changes of both names and directors and achieved less comparatively, a trend that keeps the country in desperate quest for improved energy accessibility.
“In the past the problems persisting in the sector have been poor tendering, less timely reporting, poor service delivery and lack of compliance with tender laws,” Minister Musoni said.
The new managing director, Muzola, said that such malpractices have only held the cooperation in need for innovation.
He noted that poor management is the only cause for persistent challenges.
“This means that services are not delivered appropriately,” he said.
The closed meeting in which such malpractices and challenges are disclosed will also continue with the inclusion of the police and the ombudsman.
He said that cooperation is now looking into how to address the losses incurred by the malpractices.
WASAC now intends to improve the quality of service delivery and set strategies that better reduce the recurrence of malpractices.
The cooperation former leaders James Sano and Emmanuel Kamanzi of the Energy Utility Corporation Limited were arrested in allegation relating to causes of poor working environment.
The meeting, Muzola said, culminated in agreements between the cooperation and the ministry of infrastructure that will over the years see reduction in the challenges and improved efficiency.
Water will then be accessible in cleaner technologies and places than was in the past.
Volumes of water sources will also be increased to consummate the increasing demand for cleaner water around the country.
For example Nzove water supply will increase its capacity to 15000 cubic meters so that people in Kigali city can depend on cleaner water.
