Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The controversy surrounding last month\u2019s electricity tariff hike is yet to fade as the Nigerian workers, on Monday, disrupted activities in the power sector, demanding its reversal.<\/p>\nThe organized labour picketed offices of all eleven Electricity Distribution Companies and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.<\/p>\n
In Abuja, the protest was led by Joe Ajaero, NLC president, to the Ministry of Power and the NERC headquarters.<\/p>\n
Offices of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company were also shut down as workers were prevented from resumption.<\/p>\n
Similarly, they picketed the offices of the eleven discos in Kwara, Lagos, Kaduna, Plateau, Enugu, Sokoto and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n
Ajaero, during the picketing, said NERC should review its methodology for tariff increases in the electricity sector.<\/p>\n
He noted the tariff hike is the fundamental cause of the country\u2019s soaring headlines and food inflation, which stood at 33.20 per cent and 40.01 per cent in March.<\/p>\n
In response to the organized labour\u2019s one-day protest, the Nigerian Government has said that it is ready to negotiate with organized labour.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Power, Mrs Florence Eke, in a telephone interview after workers crippled activities at the Ministry of Power, said the Federal Government, through the Permanent Secretary, Mr Mamman Mahmuda, had convened a consultative meeting for the next week with the organized labour and stakeholders to address the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry has asserted that its responsibility is to make policy while agencies, in this case, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, and other agencies implement it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry will invite all stakeholders for a proper consultation by next week,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
However, the Nigeria Labour Congress spokesperson, Benson Upah, said that the government was supposed to consult before implementing the April 3 electricity tariff hike.<\/p>\n
He warned that the picketing was just a teaser of what was to come if the Nigerian Government did not reverse the tariff hike.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were supposed to do a consultation before the tariff hike. What happened today is a teaser to what will come if the Government does nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Recall that in April 2024, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission announced a 240 per cent electricity tariff increase for Band A customers getting 20-24 hours of power supply.<\/p>\n
The hike led to customers in band A paying N225 kwh from N68 Kwh.<\/p>\n
As justification for the hike, the Nigerian Government at different fora said it would save the country N1.5 trillion, and that only 15 per cent of the 12.8 million electricity customers would be affected.<\/p>\n
Following the hike rejection by Nigerians, a recent minor reduction of N18.2 was announced.<\/p>\n
However, workers\u2019 picketing of Discos and NERC showed that the organized labour is unsatisfied with the Government\u2019s minor tariff reduction.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the development, Ewetumo A A, a retired staff member of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, formerly the National Electric Power Authority, NEPA, said the picketing by the organized labour was long overdue.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegrettably, today\u2019s picketing action by the NLC and TUC is belated and long overdue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe April 3, 2024, tariff increase, though only on Band A consumers, is having a ripple and multiplier effect on the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe inflationary trend in the country is alarming and worrisome.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis present increase can only make it worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cNERC must adopt a more pragmatic and gradual three-step review approach to implementing its Cost Reflective Tariff Regime without unsettling the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, the power sector needs a massive infusion of capital to build new power plants and refurbish the ageing old network.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Federal government is advised to explore a Public Private Partnership initiative to fund the power sector, incorporate the various states into blocks of regions to undertake a total transformation of the Power Sector\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
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