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Outrage as glitch leaves prepaid power users in the dark

Kenya power prepaid meter

Thousands of Kenyans were left without power after a system hitch at electricity distributor Kenya Power saw them unable to access tokens for their prepaid metres for two days.

By late last evening, most customers who had bought tokens using either the utility firm’s pay bill number or any of its third-party vendors were yet to receive their units.

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