Lagosians Protest Increase In Electricity Tariff

Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and some other groups in communities across Lagos State are protesting the planned hike in electricity tariff by Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and perennial power outage today.

In a statement by its Organising Secretary, Chinedu Bosah, the groups said they would be a peaceful rally at Federal High Court Ikoyi-Falomo to protest the hike and outage being imposed on them by the energy companies (Distribution and generation companies).

According to them, “Aside protest in several communities, we are also participating in a legal action against the planned electricity tariff hike by the NERC and the power distribution companies, part ofthe statement read.

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