NLC Threatens Mass Resistance Against Further Hike in Electricity

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday urged the Federal Government to jettison any planned hike in electricity tariff under any guise, threatening to lead mass resistance against further such increases in tariff.

This came as it threatened to shut down operations of telecommunications companies should they fail to implement the 35 Percent hike in tariff agreed with the Government as against the 50 per cent earlier approved through the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC.

NLC in a communique at the end of its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in in Yola, Adamawa State, said members of NEC unequivocally rejected “the ongoing sham reclassification of electricity consumers by the NERC which seeks to forcefully migrate consumers from lower bands to Band A under the guise of service improvement while, in reality, imposing unjustified extortion on the masses.”