Workers in Ondo State will on Monday next week lead electricity consumers to shut down all offices of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, in the state, to protest against the recent increase in power tariff.
BEDC is in charge of Ekiti, Ondo, Delta and Edo.
A statement issued and signed by the State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mrs. Bossed Dramola on Thursday said the picketing of all DISCOS offices nationwide, including BEDC was part of the decisions at the NLC National Executive Council, NEC, meeting held in Lagos.
She added that the union’s action was in order to kick against the unlawful and unilateral hike in electricity tariff by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.
Daramola, however, urged members of the civil society organizations, artisans, landlord associations, traders and other electricity consumers to join Nigerian workers at the BEDC head office at NEPA area of Akure to picket the place to reject the new power tariff.
Report says the picketing of all DISCOS offices by the NLC, TUC and civil society groups will take place in the thirty six states of the federation and the FCT, Abuja by Monday next week.
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