Reacting to the hike in electricity tariff, NLC and TUC shut down offices of DisCos and NERC in Plateau, Ebonyi, Kano and Kaduna on Monday.
The gate of Kano Electricity Distribution Company, KEDCO, locked by the leadership of the NLC and TUC in Kano State on Monday. Photo: Bashir Bello.The offices of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, and Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, were also affected in some states.In Plateau State, the leadership and members of the two unions converged at the entrance of the main office of the Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JEDCo.
Addressing their members, Bauchi State NLC Chairperson, Comrade Dauda Shuaibu, said that the union’s SWC held a meeting in Abuja on April 30 and wrote to the discos to make an immediate reversal of the new tariff. The labour union which joined its counterparts across the country to protest over 300 per cent increments in electricity tariffs by NERC, stormed the headquarters of NERC and KEDCO and shut down the gates.
“We are not doing this for ourselves but for Nigerians because Nigerians are crying and not happy over the increment when there is even no stable power supply.“The first action is the picketing of the NERC and KEDCO, but the next action will be worse than this,” Yakasai said.
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