Residents of some communities in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, have actually protested the unexpected walking in electrical power costs.

DAILY POST discovered that Quest Electricity Nigeria Limited which currently handles the supply of electrical power in Adamawa State suddenly hiked costs by between 100 and 150 percent, prompting complaints by customers.

This comes less than 2 weeks after the company took over Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) from the Federal Government which offered it to the new company through the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) at N19 billion.

Ramifications of the change of ownership soon ended up being evident to consumers when, two weeks later on, Quest Electricity Nigeria Limited increased the electrical energy tariffs.

Mr Haruna David, a private expert and building engineer based in Yola, informed journalists, “The new company raised the tariff by over 100 per cent, unleashing hardship on Adamawa individuals.

“I have a two-bedroom house at Karewa area (Yola North LGA), where on monthly basis I paid a bill of 11,736. However, yesterday I was served with a 30, 795 expense.”

Mr Muhammed Lawal, a civil servant and resident of Jimeta, likewise in Yola North, said he was paying 11,764 month-to-month however that on Friday he was served with a brand-new bill of 23,832.

“I was stunned to get the brand-new expense,” he stated, including that the brand-new business, which had earlier said it would invest N28 billion for an upgrade, had actually seemingly selected to create the amount through milking poor Nigerians.

He stated he and other people of like-minds are mobilising citizens to turn down the ‘ungodly’ charges.

It was gathered on Sunday that locals in Bachure, Jimeta Old market, Shinko, Jambutu in Yola North; Yolde Pate, Wuro Hausa and Hayin Gada in Yola South and individuals in neighborhoods in Girei LGA declined the charges and returned the regular monthly bills served them to the electrical power company.

The mad locals then told the business to remove their cable televisions if they liked.

The management of Quest Electricity Nigeria Limited might not be reached to respond to the development by press time, but a staffer told our coorespindent that the government had actually currently offered YEDC to the private company, which does not wish to operate at a loss.

“Customers month-to-month costs were increased due to the fact that no business operates to lose,” he said.