Kenyans miss out on Uhuru’s Christmas electricity gift

A Kenya Power and Lighting Company employee inspects a meter box at the Kosovo area of Mathare slums. PHOTO | HEZRON NJOROGE | NMG

Kenyan households and businesses did not experience a 15 percent drop in electricity bills by Christmas as promised by President Uhuru Kenyatta after the energy sector regulator failed to sanction expected changes in tariffs.

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) is required to gazette the reduction in power bills, which should be implemented by Kenya Power, the near-monopoly electricity distributor.

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