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Labour tackles FG for denying electricity tariff increase

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday, carpeted the Federal Government for issuing conflicting statements over the recent increment in electricity tariff. One of the…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday, carpeted the Federal Government for issuing conflicting statements over the recent increment in electricity tariff. One of the statements issued earlier denied the increase.

The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had claimed N2 to N4 adjustment in tariff on inflation and movement in foreign exchange rates, but Minister of Power Saleh Mamma denied the increment.

The president of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, in a statement made available to newsmen, faulted the claim credited to the minister, in which he described media reports on the increase in cost of electricity by the regulatory agency as untrue.

He insisted that the contradictions in the minister’s statement succeeded in reinforcing the anxiety by Nigerians that, “We yet again face a year where the biggest pre-occupation of government appears to be the deflection of the worst economic vicissitudes on citizens.”

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