Kenyans on Tuesday endured a third countrywide power blackout in four years, which resulted in financial losses running into millions of shillings as businesses were disrupted.
Kenya Power said the outage on its grid happened after towers supporting a high-voltage power line linking Nairobi to the Kiambere hydroelectric dam collapsed. The monopoly did not publicly disclose what caused the fall of the towers, but insiders said earlier indications pointed to possible vandalism of the installation based at Nairobi’s Imara Daima area.
