The Nigeria Labour Congress, on Wednesday, has said that the Federal Government is insensitive to the plight of Nigerians for increasing the electricity tariff across the country.

The Deputy President, NLC, Joe Ajaero stated that, “There was a tariff increase in November which is being contested. A committee was set up headed by Keyamo and some of us are serving in that committee. We have not even finished addressing that issue and that adjustment was unjust and was not necessary. Now, somebody is issuing a statement that there was an adjustment and it was not an increase. No matter how they play with semantics, Nigerians are noticing a lot of differences in what they are doing.

“90 per cent of Nigerians receive less than 12-hour electricity per day. All those issues of banding, band A, B, C, D, are all lies. Nigerians know more than this.

“There is an agreement with the labour on all these issues, the committee has not even submitted their report and NERC behaves as if it is from the moon and insensitive to Nigerians. This is not acceptable.”

However, the regulatory agency, NERC, explained that the tariff adjustment is due to inflation and unstable foreign exchange rates.