As the electricity tariff is set to increase by over 40 per cent in the coming days, persons living with disabilities have called on the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to help them to mitigate the effect of the proposed hike.
They also called on the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to come to their immediate rescue and the suffering masses.
They made the call through a foundation for persons living with disabilities, Kehinde Oshilaja Foundation, on Thursday, a statement by the foundation said.
The coordinator and founder of the foundation, Kehinde Oshilaja, appealed to Sanwo-Olu and the FG “to assist the people living with disabilities and, indeed, over 22 million residents of the state” and provide “other avenues that would mitigate the effect on people if eventually implemented.”
Oshilaja was quoted as saying, “Let our kind-hearted governor of the aquatic splendour avail the masses, particularly, people living with disabilities with some measures that would cushion the effect on us.
“Also, let me use this opportunity to inform our loving governor that the said issue, if implemented, would no doubt affect the majority of the people living with disabilities and, indeed, the poor masses of Nigeria.”
He noted that “only one per cent of the people living with disabilities are working, while 99 per cent will be in a dilemma because there won’t be anyone to help.
“We, therefore, on this note plead for your speedy and unhindered assistance in intimating the APC-led federal government to put measures in place that would ameliorate the situation or else.”
