The NLC Chair Kano branch, Comrade Kabiru Ado Minjibir, while submitting a protest letter to the special adviser to the governor on Labour Matters, Comrade Isah Yunusa Danguguwa, for onward submission to President Muhammadu Buhari, through governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, insisted that they were against the tariff increase.
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The protest began from Ikeja and moved to the Ikeja office of the Electricity Distribution Company, IKEDC.
It had said that the new tariff regime would kick in on February 1.
“In a statement issued by the Head of Corporate Communication department of the Company, Abdulaziz Abdullahi, said the current economic challenges facing the country makes the planned action of the labour movements ill-motivated and counterproductive”.
“We say no to increase in electricity tariff, it is inhuman and must be reversed because it is counter productive”.
Members of the Labour Union marched around the city of Abuja demonstrating their dissatisfaction over the recent hike in electricity tariff.
Though, the Minister said it was “a painful pill”, he urged consumers to bear with electricity providers to deliver.
“There is no light and even when there is light we are having a candle-like kind of light, yet they have gone ahead to increase tariff”.
John Ushie, state chairman of the NLC, said despite the epileptic power supply in the state and country, the DISCOs had continued to bill the consumers on estimation, forcing them to pay for what they could not account for.
His words: “Congress therefore, rejects the increase on the following grounds: First, due process in the extant for such increment was not followed in consonance with section 76 of the Power Sector Reforms”.
Also speaking, Oduma said most consumers were not metered in line with the Memorandum of Understanding on privatization signed on November 1, 2013.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protest was also joined by civil society organisations in Kaduna State.
“But as I have said before, I am not going to lament what has happened in the past”.
According to Asugwuni, the policy backing the increment is anti-Nigerian.
He said that the main component of the reviewed tariff was the removal of the fixed charges and that the new tariff was “pay as you go”.
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