The increase in pump prices appears to have overshadowed power bills, yet for many families, largely low-income earners, the high cost of electricity is silently ravaging their purchasing power.
In the October Consumer Price Index (CPI), a cost of living index, the price of 50-kilowatt electricity rose by 44.13 percent year-on-year to an average of Sh1,388.99, data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows.
