PHOTOS: Labour unions picket NERC offices in Lagos, Abuja over electricity tariff hike

Members of organised labour are currently picketing offices of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) nationwide.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), and other affiliate groups, are protesting the increase in electricity tariff for customers under the Band A category.

On April 3, NERC approved an increase in electricity tariff for customers in the classification — from N66 to N225 per kwh.

Organised labour is calling for a reversal of the increase and a return to the negotiating table.

On Monday, the unionists arrived at the NERC office located at Novel House in Ikeja, Lagos, around 9:40am.

Addressing workers at the complex, Funmi Sessi, NLC Lagos chairperson, asked them to vacate their offices.

Sessi said the unions do not understand the regulatory functions of NERC amid the epileptic power supply in the country.

In Abuja, the unions besieged the NERC office located in the Central Business District.

Labour has also shut NERC offices in Jos, Akwa Ibom, Benin, Kaduna and in other capital cities across the country.

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