Calabar Hoteliers Decry Constant Power Outages, Increased Bills
May 11, 2022
11:11 am
In a recent occurence, numerous Hoteliers in Calabar, Cross River State have decried the increasing cost of doing business due to the incessant power outage that has affected the State’s capital for 49 days.
In a series of interviews on Wednesday, the hoteliers said their operational costs had more than doubled since the outage.
They lamented that the rising cost of diesel, the major source of energy used in powering their generating sets, had also not helped matters. They further said that the high taxation by the state government had also impacted negatively on their business.
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