The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has threatened that Nigerian workers will rise up to protest the hike in tariffs.
He expressed sadness over the state of affairs as he foresees hours of darkness, de-metering of more Nigerians, and exponential rise in incidences of estimated billing.
“We state that the NLC seriously frowns at, completely condemns and totally rejects any plan to inflict further pain on Nigerians at this very time of great economic distress. The new dribble by the Abuja DisCo is dead on arrival as it will be resisted by the Nigerian working class and people. The other DisCos should not bother putting their ships of exploitation to sail.
“It is important to put it on record that the NERC will be putting its name on the wrong side of history if it continues to play the ostrich while a group of portfolio investors makes a blood meal of Nigerians,” Wabba said.
Further, the CBN has asked banks to take over the collection of bills from the DisCos and the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has described it as misplaced priority. The union stated that the CBN is not a regulatory body for the power sector and has very minute knowledge about its operations, hence it cannot issue directives in a sector where it lacks expertise.
