By Abolade Ademola
The electricity tariff of Laaga residents (in Ikorodu, Lagos) has gone so high that everyone cannot afford it. As a resident of the community, I will like to add my voice to this challenge and bring it to the notice of Ikeja Electric and NERC.
In Laaga community, located around Ewu-Elepe, a suburb of
Ikorodu, residents have been made to pay an estimated bill that is more than
the minimum wage of the entire country, Nigeria.
The steady rise in the bill is very discomforting in a country where the rate of inflation keeps rising without a commensurate rise in income.
The residents of a community with few pre-paid meters have been suffering in silence for some months now but it has become very unbearable with the bill sent for January 2022 in the last few days, a whopping sum of N23,000 only! It is such an exasperating amount that everyone is lamenting this outrageous amount that was sent.
