The full extent of the impact of coronavirus disease pandemic is only unfolding, with the weakest businesses and institutions set to be hardest hit. Locally, it was inevitable that electricity distribution, monopolised by Kenya Power, was a sitting duck. After vast restructuring during the Kibaki Administration, the power distributor made good progress and indeed became a magnet for investors.
That was not to last because some of the structural weaknesses persisted. They included massive system losses that included theft of electricity by both big and small crooks, ambitious but economically suspect mass power supply and tender corruption.
