The customers, in an engagement with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on its official Twitter account, described the new tarriff being implemented by the DisCos as exploitative.
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Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, in Lagos on Thursday said the hike in petrol price and electricity tariff would multiply hardship of the masses.
Mamman disclosed this on Tuesday at the Investigative Public Hearing on Power Sector Recovery Plan and the impact on COVID-19 Pandemic, organised by the Senate Committee on Power.
Usman Arabi, General Manager, Public Affairs made the clarification in a statement issued on the agency’s website, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday.
The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected in its entirely the over 200 per cent increase in electricity tariff announced by the All Progressives Congress-led administration, describing it as draconian and completely against the interest and wellbeing of Nigerians.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission said the planned increase in tariff was done through consultation with Electricity Distribution Companies and stakeholders in the sector.
“At the last meeting we had with the Senate President and other members of the National Assembly, a directive was given that the tariff should be suspended until there was a public hearing
Abdul-Salam Fashola, the Chairman of CATEIN, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that there were lots of issues to be addressed before tariff adjustment
In a statement on Thursday, the body said: “Why should the masses be at the receiving end of every wrong and retrogressive policy in the country? Why must they always pay for what the rich consume more of? What sense does it make for a man who earns less than N20,000 per month to be made to pay over N8,000 for electricity bill alone within the same month?
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday reaffirmed its order restraining the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission from increasing electricity…
They spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
NAN reports that NERC had on November 20 said consumers would pay more for electricity from December 1 when the new price of gas for generating power would take effect
NERC announced the increase on Tuesday in Abuja.
But the TUC, in a statement on Wednesday, faulted the move by NERC
Oshiomhole said in Benin at a tripartite meeting among the government, civil society groups and management of BEDC that the charges were “exploitative