The Eko Electricity Distribution Company on Saturday urged electricity consumers to brace up for upward adjustment in tariffs to partly meet the reality of the prevailing economic situation.
Oladele Amoda, EKEDC’s chief executive officer, made the plea in Lagos at a stakeholders’ consultative forum with the customers on the need to adjust electricity tariffs.
Currently, the company is charging N26 per kilowatts for a residential building. Justice Mohammed Idris of Federal High Court in Lagos had on Thursday renewed an earlier order restraining the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission from implementing the new electricity tariff.
NERC had proposed tariff increase effective from June 1, but the judge restrained NERC and the electricity distribution companies from making any increment. Mr. Idris gave the order in a ruling on an ex-parte application filed by a Lagos lawyer, Toluwani Adebiyi, against increase in electricity tariff.
In their responses, Sunday Durosimi, who represented Festac Housing Estate, and Oluwole Alfred, the representative of Lekki Estate, advised the company to have a rethink on the adjustment initiative. They said that customers would not take it lightly with the company if after the tariff adjustment there was no improvement in the electricity supply within their networks.
