The charge per kilowatt-hour on electricity in Nigeria, which hitherto was N225, has been arbitrarily increased to over N700 with the New Multi-Year Tariff Order of the Nigerian Electricity Regulating Commission (NERC) amidst epileptic power supply for customers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) across the country, reports SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf.
A series of Power Sector Polls conducted by NOI Polls Limited for the second quarter of 2013, last week, showed that 130 million Nigerians generate their own electricity. “A combined average of 69 per cent of Nigerians or 110 million Nigerians, have experienced increase in their spending on alternative power supply compared to a year ago,” the polls’ results released last Wednesday showed.
On the day the poll result was published too, customers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in their hundreds besieged the Mushin office of the company while millions of other Nigerians planned protests over the new Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO), which was reflected in the June bill that the PHCN served to their customers across Nigeria.
While residents of Satellite Town, who have suffered neglect under Eko Electricity Distribution zone, described the hike as inhuman, the labour union disclosed that less than 10 per cent of consumers would be able to pay the outrageous tariff in the next few years.
A resident of the town, a settlement in Lagos told Daily Independent on condition of anonymity
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