By Alex Otudor
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pandemonium broke out at the offices of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC located along Mba- Cardoso street in Ajegunle when hundreds of residents stormed the office demanding an end to multiple billing and tariff hike.
Some residents woke up to the sound of solidarity songs and heavy drum beats, by members of the Ajegunle Peoples  Movement, APM, the body that organized the protest
APM is demanding among others that the residents reject the hike in electricity tariff which they see as a scam, kick against multiple billing system, and the sharp  increase in pre paid meter fee.
They further ask the ‘ landlord/tenants associations to form Democratic Action in Ajeromi-Ifelodun communities to resist unwarranted and unjust disconnections based on the duplication of Yahoo Yahoo bills’.
A member of APM, Austin said, ‘the Discos and EKEDC in particular is through estimated billing system visiting pains on the masses and adding to the already excruciating hardship occasioned by the harsh economic policies of the go  verment’.
He added that electricity supply to Ajegunle, Ifelodun and environs ‘was erratic, in short supply and very unpredictable, even with the extortive bills’.

This reporter cited two different bills served a building. One read N54,000 and another N111,000 on the same building within the same month.
The body lamented the unending system collapse which has continuous cause power outage and questioned the rationale behind the privatisation of PHCN.

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