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MPs criticise energy regulator for hiking prices of electricity

Energy Regulatory Commission Director-General Pavel Oimeke

NAIROBI, KENYA: Parliament has criticised the energy regulator for increasing electricity charges for domestic consumers.

The National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Energy also said reducing the number of subsidised units that low-end consumers can utilise in a month had locked out many Kenyans who might not meet the criteria of the middle-income segment that they have now been bundled into.

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