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Federal Government can’t hike electricity tariff yet –Labour

November 1, 2020
in News

The Federal Government cannot revert to the September 1 , 2020 service reflective tariff that led to widespread outcry across the country , the Nigeria Labour Congress has said .

Deputy President , NLC , Joe Ajaero , who doubles as General Secretary , National Union of Electricity Employees , on Friday night, said a new tariff template had been agreed upon by government and labour unions .

Speaking with our correspondent , he said , “ I ’ m not sure of any planned reversal to the old or increased tariff . The template has been touched after the first two weeks of our meeting on the tariff review .

“ If you watch the new template for customers in bands A and B , there was a reduction of 10 per cent and 10 . 5 per cent , respectively . For those in Band C , there is a 31 per cent reduction . ”

Ajaero added , “ Those in bands D and E were not increased at all . Now , that is what we could do within the two weeks and we were given an extension of about two to three months to work on some other issues . ”

He said the implementation of the reductions would have commenced in the past two weeks but, because of some adjustments , the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission would have to commence it on a later date .

“ NERC is not reverting to the tariff that led to the outcry . Rather , it would commence the implementation of these adjustments that were done pending when we are going to make further findings .

“ So, they are going to revert to these adjustments that we have made and not the September 1 , 2020 tariff hike, which they had approved earlier . The NERC chairman’ s signature is on what we agreed to during our meeting ,” Ajaero said .


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