The Nation Newspaper Oyo NLC, TUC picket NERC, IBEDC offices Ibadan
) and Trade Union Congress joined their counterparts across the country to pick offices of the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company over the hike in electricity tariff.
The unions demanded a total reversal of the tariff by the federal government or else the offices would be shut down until its request was acceded to.The picketing action which was monitored by men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force , witnessed members of staff of IBEDC being chased out of the buildings in line with the directive of the national secretariat of the Unions.
He said: “We are fed up with inhuman policies being rolled out by our leaders, as of today, to live in Nigeria has become a crime, we find it difficult to relate with other countries, now we are enslaved in our father’s land. Sometimes ago, the federal government removed subsidy on everything making life unbearable for Nigeria citizens.”
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