EWURA reduces adulteration of oil

The Authority�s director general Felix Ngamlagosi

 The Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) has said that it had reduced adulteration of oil by 10 per cent from 78 per cent in 2007.

 

Speaking here over the weekend at a brief ceremony to open EWURA offices in Mwanza, the Authority’s director general Felix Ngamlagosi said that his Authority had also managed to improve water, electricity and gas services and infrastructure.

 

Ngamlagosi said that previously the adulteration of oil was a big challenge to motorists but now the Authority in collaboration with other stakeholders was working hard to control the situation.

 

“In 2007 the rate of oil adulteration was 78 per cent but today as I speak it had been reduced to 10 per cent and we hope that gradually the problem will be history,” he said.

 

Ngamlagosi said EWURA had as well educated the public on their rights as consumers and how to demand them.

 

He said the Mwanza office which serves the Lake Zone was established specifically to take the service closer to the people so that they do not have to travel to Dar es Salaam every time they had problems. “Previously we had only one office in Dar es Salaam.

 

 The Mwanza office is the first to be opened outside Dar es Salaam.

“From here we plan to open more offices in Mbeya, Arusha and other regions.” 

Earlier inaugurating the office, the Nyamagana district commissioner Baraka Konisaga, said Lake Zone residents would not have to travel to Dar es Salaam for the service now that the EWURA had opened an office in Mwanza.