Audit report queries Ketraco equipment

Kenya Power workers at the Embakasi sub-station in Nairobi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU

Faulty transformers at the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company’s (Ketraco) sub-stations have been the cause of frequent power outages around the country, an internal audit report on the parastatal says.

The power failures’ real impact is dilution of quality of supply that ultimately drives businesses into extra costs that are passed on to taxpayers in form of expensive goods from the manufacturers.

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