Power woes in western Kenya to persist on project hitch

A Kenya Power technician at work. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Western Kenya residents will have to bear intermittent power supply after the timeline for construction of a major transmission line was shifted for the sixth time.

Completion date for the Olkaria-Lessos-Kisumu transmission line has now crossed to 2021, extending the locking out of homes and industries in western Kenya from the geothermal power in Olkaria that sits idle due to the missing line.

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