Outrage over Kenya’s nationwide shutdown of electricity

Kenyans want to know why the whole country had no electricity late on Sunday, leaving them in the dark.

It happened around 8:00 PM local time (5:00 PM GMT) – Kenya’s third complete power outage in the last four months.

The power cut caused problems for many services, including at the main airport in the capital city, Nairobi. Two terminals were without electricity for a few hours.

A lot of Kenyans are unhappy with the government because they keep having power outages.

By Monday morning, electricity was back on in most of the country. Some areas in Nairobi and the Coast region are still waiting for the power to come back.

“We are working nonstop to make the remaining areas normal again as soon as we can,” said Kenya Power, the government-owned power company, in its latest update.

Kenya’s Power and Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen has been strongly criticized.

Kenya Power should pay people when they lose electricity and it causes them to lose money, food, or time. “Kenya Power needs to take responsibility for the power outages,” a Kenyan said on X.

People are mad at Mr. Murkomen because there was another power outage at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, even though he said it wouldn’t happen again after a big power outage in August.

The power cut affected two of the busiest JKIA terminals. The airport authority said that the back-up generators for those terminals did not start right away.

Mr Murkomen believes that the power cut might have been done on purpose.

“He posted on X that because of how often the power goes out and how important JKIA is, we want the National Police Service to look into the possibility that someone is deliberately causing the power outages and hiding it. ”

Recently, Kenya has had a lot of times when the electricity stopped working all over the country. It happened on 11th November, 25th August, 4th March, and also in November and December of last year.