Kenya’s Sh13b wind power project finally hit the skies in Nyandarua

For a visitor to Magumu and Githabai villages in Kinangop constituency in Nyandarua County, two things stick out like a sore thumb - the high levels of poverty and strong constant cold winds.

Despite the region being one of the country’s food baskets, lack of employment and low earnings from their produce has reduced many of the peasants into ‘sufferers’. However, this could change soon after area residents with the support of their leaders, gave consent to the Sh13 billion Kinangop Wind Park (KWP) project.