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How agency spent billions on malfunctioning transformers

Kakamega residents and Kenya Power technicians keen to have a glance at a faulty power trasformer which exploded yesterday. The transformer has been faulty for quite some time with power technicians checking it almost everyday but yesteday it exploded and blasted into flames shocking county officials and bringing business along Kenyatta Avenue to a standstill. The transformet stands close to Kakamega County Headquaters. However, nobody was harmed. [PHOTO: CHRISPEN SECHERE].

Senior officials at a State agency could have received kickbacks from the suppliers of faulty transformers to look the other way almost a decade.

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