Are energy agencies ducking probe into wind power contract?

Wind power farm at Sarima, near Lake Turkana in Laisamis, Marsabit County. [Ali Abdi, Standard]

For three consecutive days last week, the National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) was unable to extract any information from senior officials of three government entities on the State’s dealings with the Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) company.

By coincidence or design, officials from National Treasury, Kenya Power and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) were at a loss when they appeared before the committee, and in the end, failed to provide substantive information that the MPs were seeking.