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No Electricity For Kangema People, Use Paraffin Lamps


Kangema pupil using a lamp

When Kenya Power and Lightening Company engineers and technocrats came to Mukarara, Kangema in year 2014 for construction of KPLC Kangema substation site seeing, it kindled hope of Light among the area residents as well as Kangema people most of whom were living in the darkness.

The hope was awakened when the construction work commenced and residents awaited for a day when they would throw away their old paraffin lamps and kiss a goodbye to eye and nose problems brought about by long use of paraffin lamps especially on young school pupils and Students as well as save money used to purchase Kerosene.

After the installation of machinery and commissioning of the Substation, the dream was coming to reality but that was not for long until they realized they were like a builder who builds a house only not to live in it or like a farmer who feeds or fatten his animal only to be milked or slaughtered somewhere else. 

KPLC Kangema Substation

After waiting for years to come out of darkness misery, their dream and hopes are now shuttered after the KPLC started Laying cables from KPLC Kangema Substation, Kangema Constituency to Othaya Constituency in Nyeri County.

Laying of cables to Othaya

That's the bitter fact for Kangema People. The Substation was to benefit Othaya Constituency People not Kangema People. Many people surrounding the Substation ought to have benefited first by connectivity of electricity before benefiting Othaya people. 

                  Othaya Town

But that never happened and might never happen and the area residents as well as Kangema Residents will continue to live in darkness or use the paraffin lamps they have been used to.

Comments

  1. Unknown20 August 2020 at 12:53

    As many resident ask where does the kplc cable are taken to.... I hear someone at Kanorero asking such a question

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