Ruto Fires Kenya Power Officials

President Ruto is facing piling pressure from leaders across the political divide to take action against the Ministry of Energy and Kenya Power officials due to yesterday’s nationwide power outage that lasted over 12 hours since yesterday at 9a.m.

In a move seeking to call for accountability,Opiyo Wandayi;National Assembly Leader Of Minority and Samson Cherargei;Nandi Senator did not that the power outage did affect a majority of operations of the country including economic activities.

Uginja MP Wandayi did lament that the blackout was a major disservice to the Kenyan people who are already dealing with expensive electricity costs.

Charargei on his part demanded that the national utility firm needs to compensate the Kenyan people for the losses that they incurred during the over 12 hour outage.

The senator called the power outage a major shame;given that the key infrastructure in the country such as JKIA were majorly affected after failure of their backup generators.

Most notably,in the midst of the accountability calls, parliament did summon Kenya Power Boss Joseph Siror and Energy CS Davis Chirchir in regards to the particular incident.

The two are expected to appear before the energy committee this coming week on Thursday to offer an explanation as to why the country experienced a national blackout.

Kenya Power on their part blamed the power outage on being caused by a system failure that happened in one of its stations.

Kenya Power’s utility board chair;Joy Mdivo did reveal that there was a blackout in it’s stations in the county of Turkana;which is key to the National grid.