Former Kiambu governor William Kabogo has joined Kenyans on social media expressing their frustrations with Kenya Energy following a nationwide outage.
In an announcement shared, the utility agency famous that the electrical energy outage was attributable to system disturbance and subsequently issued an apology to Kenyans inconvenienced by the sudden energy blackout.
In addition they assured Kenyans that restoration works have been underway.
“Now we have misplaced bulk energy provide to numerous elements of the nation as a consequence of a system disturbance,” the assertion reads in elements.
“We’re working to revive normalcy inside the shortest time potential. We apologise to our clients for the inconvenience prompted,” the assertion added.
Nevertheless, a piece of Kenyans together with Kabogo are calling for an finish to Kenya Energy’s monopoly.
The previous Kiambu county boss says that opening up the trade for competitors might be a win for Kenyans since firms will ship energy at lower than half the present costs of Kenya Energy.
“Time to finish KPLC monopoly, @WilliamsRuto open up the trade for competitors many firms will ship energy to the folks at lower than half the present costs of KPLC and I do know you’re conscious,” Kabogo tweeted.
Time to finish KPLC monopoly, @WilliamsRuto open up the trade for competitors many firms will ship energy to the folks at lower than half the present costs of KPLC and I do know you’re conscious.
— Hon. William Kabogo (@honkabogo) March 4, 2023
Frequent outages
There have been frequent energy outages as a part of Kenya Energy’s deliberate outages.
On February 28, 2023, Kenya Energy issued an announcement alerting Kenyans of a scheduled outage from 9 am to five pm in elements of eight counties together with Nairobi, Machakos, Uasin Gishu, West Pokot, Siaya, Kakamega, Kiambu and Kwale.
On January 31, 2023, the utility agency issued a buyer alert for a scheduled energy outage from 9 am to five pm in elements of seven counties.
The seven counties that have been affected by the deliberate energy interruptions included; Nairobi, Kajiado, Kisumu, Siaya, Nyeri, Meru and Kiambu.
On November 24, 2022, there was a nationwide power outage.
The utility agency, in an announcement, stated it skilled a ‘system disturbance’ that prompted the blackout in varied elements of the nation.
“Now we have misplaced bulk energy provide to numerous elements of the nation as a consequence of a system disturbance and we’re working to revive normalcy inside the shortest time potential,” Kenya Energy stated.
