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500,000 homes in dark despite power connection subsidy

Kenya Power Managing Director Bernard Ngugi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG

By  EDWIN OKOTH

Jubilee administration is set to leave thousands of families in the dark when its term ends in two years as only 48 percent out of 1.02 million targeted households have been connected to the national electricity grid.

Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC, the utility firm charged with hooking households to the electricity mains, has so far connected 494,374 under a five-year subsidised electricity project launched in September 2015.

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