Why MPs want State to source loans for private power firms

Kenya Power substation in Muthurwa in Nairobi. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG

Members of Parliament seek to compel the government to source for financiers to give new, cheaper loans to old independent power producers (IPPs) within four years as part of reforms to lower the cost of power.

The National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Energy wants Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir and his Treasury counterpart Njuguna Ndung’u, to help devise ways to help the IPPs refinance their existing loans.

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