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    Friday 13 November 2015

    Group Protests against increase in PHCN tariff, epileptic power supply




    By Emmanuel Udom
    Lagos
      

    Members of Electricity Consumers Forum, a Lagos based non-governmental organization on Thursday, November 12, 2015; marched through major streets in Lagos, south-west Nigeria to protest what it described as an increase in the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) tariff.

     Our correspondent who covered the event observed that the protesters in their hundreds assembled at Ikeja under bridge, near the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where they marched through Obafemi Awolowo Way up to the secretariat of the Lagos State government.

    Led by Bar Adeola Samuel – Ilori, Coordinator of the forum, the protesters chanted solidarity songs, calling on President Muhammed Buhari to order the management of PHCN to stop demanding for payment while delivering darkness to electricity consumers in the country

    Samuel-Ilori also demanded that the intending increase in tariff should be stopped as estimated bills which translate to crazy and astronomical charges on helpless consumers, while a total removal of Service charges of N750 in consumers’ bills and prepaid meter subscribers be scrapped.

    Hon Yinka Ogundimu, representing Agege 2 Constituency, Lagos  on the platform of the All Progressives’ Congress thanked the protesters for the peaceful manner they conducted themselves and assured that their demands will received positive response  from the state and federal government.

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