KPLC cuts power at MP Mbai Kitui home and business premises
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Kenya Power (KPLC) disconnects electricity at Nimrod Mbai Kitui home, and business premises days after assaulting one of the utility managers
Kenya Power (KPLC) disconnects electricity at Nimrod Mbai Kitui home, and business premises days after assaulting one of the utility managers.
The operation was undertaken after preliminary investigations established that the MP had not been paying electricity bills at his rural home since 2015 when the power connection was apparently illegally done.
The power cut was confirmed by Kenya Power regional manager, John Wanyoike, who said the MP had not been paying his power bills.
This comes as the MP’s house in Kitengela was disconnected from power over an alleged illegal connection.
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The MP was on Wednesday arrested and later released on police bail of Ksh.50,000 pending arraignment on the 11th of July over the assault of a Kenya Power official.
The Kenya Power engineers who were dispatched from Nairobi under heavy security escort descended on the MP’s rural home on Friday afternoon and conducted an inspection before disconnecting the power supply.
There was some commotion when the team proceeded to the MP’s business premises at Zombe market, where a group of youths confronted the engineers demanding they stop the operation.
They were quickly repulsed back by the armed security officers accompanying the KPLC staff.
The Kenya Power team took away electric power meters said to belong to the County Government of Kitui and which were meant for street lighting in the area.
“We established that the power meters at his place belong to the County Government and not Kenya Power. We suspect they were installed on street lights,” said Mr Wanyoike.
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