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Last Mile connections push up electricity bill defaults

Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter launches the Last Mile Connectivity Project in Siaya County in May 2016. The initiative mainly targets poor rural households. [File, Standard]

The amount of money that Kenya Power loses owing to non-payment of electricity bills has been on the rise despite the installation of prepaid metres for a majority of its domestic customers.

The firm has attributed the rise in the unpaid bills to an increase in the number of customers under its Last Mile Connectivity Programme, with the recent additions largely drawn from low-income urban and rural households.

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