The Nationalist Party will be taking the government to court over overbilling in water and electricity rates, PN leader Bernard Grech announced on Monday He reiterated the PN’s pledge that a future PN government will return all the extra payments families have been paying over the years. “This is institutionalised theft,” he said. He was speaking in Siggiewi during the party’s low-key Independence Day celebrations. A draft report by the Auditor General found overbilling by ARMS was costing consumers €6.5 million in “extra charges”. Even former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had acknowledged the overbilling and promised to rectify it. Last year, hundreds of people turned up at the PN headquarters with their electricity bills as the PN began its exercise to calculate how much people were being “robbed” in the way utility tariffs were being calculated. “They charged a man because he stole a can of tuna but the ministers who have been robbing the people of thousands through their utility bills still roam around free,” Grech said. He referred to a court case in July where a court ruled that ARMS, the company that bills consumers for water and electricity, breached the law when it...