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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