Inside the politics and numbers behind the ever-rising electricity bills

Unfulfilled pledge: When the 5,000 MW project was launched in 2013, it was expected that the cost of electricity would drop to Sh9 per unit within four years but it did not.

For each unit of power, consumers pay an average of Sh23.10 or 31 per cent more than they did just six years ago when a unit cost Sh16.

And in the next few months, electricity bills are set to get even higher.