A 60-year-old activist and initiator of The Stable Power Movement, Abayomi Gbode-Ogun Dawodu, has declared that he will embark on hunger strike from Monday, July 1 to prevail on the federal government and top officials in the power sector to abolish estimated billing which leads to crazy billing by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCn).
Speaking with Saturday Mirror, Dawodu demanded that estimated billing must be permanently abolished and prepaid meters given free to electricity consumers.
“I urge the government to pay special attention to the behaviour of PHCN staff.
Since electricity tariff was increased in July last year, PHCN has kept increasing it, even when there is no power and when people should be charged for their consumption only,” he said.
Having complained to the officials of PHCN, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Coalition of Residence and Business Association of Nigeria (CRBAN) and many others on several occasions without any meaningful change, he stated that he has no other option than to embark on hunger strike.
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