Kenya Power on Friday announced a nationwide power outage that left most counties across the country plunged into total darkness.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
The parastatal in a statement, noted the outage which began on Friday morning at around 9 am affected all the regions across the country except the Rift Valley.
While making the announcement, Kenya Power expressed remorse and assured Kenyans of their efforts to restore normalcy.
“Apologies for the inconvenience. We are experiencing an outage affecting several parts of the country. We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the parastatal announced.
“We will keep you updated on the progress and share more information on the restoration efforts as soon as possible.”
The latest incident comes hours after Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary James Wandayi expressed the ministry’s commitment to reduce frequent power outages.
According to CS Wandayi, the ministry had already rolled out several strategies aimed at stemming the trend of frequent power outages.
“What I am here to say is that we have put up measures and systems that would mitigate the blackouts, but if they happen there would be a system to swiftly restore power,” Wandayi promised.
“We are also continuing to invest in the infrastructure both at the generation level and at the transmission level.”
CS Wandayi’s sentiments followed five days after the country recorded another outage that left most parts of Kenya in darkness.
The blackout which struck the country on Friday, August 30, leftareas such as Nairobi, Voi, Murang’a, Embu, Lang’ata, Ongata Rongai, Kitale, Kericho, and Malindi in darkness.
The country’s latest blackout has since raised uproar among Kenyans who faulted the new energy minister for failing to actualise his promise….CLICK HERE FOR MORE ARTICLE>>>
