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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has threatened to go on strike if the planned increase in electricity tariff is executed.
The organised labour conveyed the strike threat in a statement signed by its president, Ayuba Wabba.
He punctured reports of an on-going plan to increase electricity tariff as mere speculation in the statement.
The statement said: “We wish to draw your attention to the wave of speculation, especially as widely reported in the media, that there are fresh plans to grant approval to Electricity Distribution Companies to hike electricity tariff.
“We write to remind the minister that organised labour on September 28, 2020 through the federal government-organised labour committee on Electricity Tariff agreed to freeze further increases in electricity tariff until the committee concludes its work and its report adopted by all the principals in the committee.
“It is in light of this that we dismiss the on-going speculation on increase in electricity tariff as mere speculations. We, however, find it prudent to put you on notice that should government make true the swirling speculation by approving an increase in electricity tariff, oganised labour would be left with no option than to deploy the industrial mechanisms granted in our laws for the defense of workers’ rights.”
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