The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Federal Government against any increase in electricity tariffs, vowing to launch a massive strike if such a hike is implemented.
NLC also threatened to shut down operations of telecommunications companies should they fail to implement the 35 Percent tariff hike agreed upon with the Government as against the 50 percent earlier approved through the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC.
NLC, in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Yola, Adamawa State, said members of NEC unequivocally rejected “the ongoing sham reclassification of electricity consumers by the NERC, which seeks to forcefully migrate consumers from lower bands to Band A under the guise of service improvement while, in reality, imposing unjustified extortion on the masses.”