 Some aggrieved electricity consumers in River State have staged a protest against a Port Harcourt electricity distribution company asking them to leave the state over the issue of estimated billings. The protesters under the auspices of concerned electricity consumers in River State blocked the entrance of the Corporation head office at the PHEDC in Moscow Road, Port Harcourt demanding to be addressed by the managing director of the PHED. Protesters with placards of different inscriptions demand the PHEDC to supply power. The leader of the protest, Ennefa Judgewell said, the protest is just a preamble, as a matter of all protest is underway, while he accuses the NERC of failing the mandate to properly regulate the electricity distribution company's discos. Also, residents who have been subjected to estimated billings express their displeasure. On the month of February they gave me 25, March they gave me 30,300, then this April they gave me 50,000, handwritten with big, so that's why I came. And I'm only living with a family of six in a bungalow. I don't know what I'm using. Why my bees should be going, you know, multiplying every month. So we are the point of PHEDC supplying power through these installations done by NIPP, only to hear that they are demanding 3.6 million and I consider that very outrageous and very criminal in line with the regulatory laws of electricity, regulatory laws of the country. The very problem is that there is not enough supply of electricity, yet they come to collect money. It may be a day supply, yet they come for collection, and in the place of collection there is no message. This crazy, this is armed robbery, this is robbery, this is wickedness. Our argument as a civil society is what we should do. Responding to the issue of overbelling, Acting Manager Corporate Communications, PHEDC, Chioma Aninwe says electricity tariffs are set by the regulatory body and it has no hand in it. PHEDC is a responsive company and whatever it is that a customer is aggrieved about, we are adults are open for discussion. We have tried everything since a week now to engage the convener to say what are the issues, let us address the issues. However the management has assured that they are open to dialogue and will continue to serve the people.