Last mile connectivity project has already been politicized

Those blasting the last mile electrification project lack substantial elements of critique. Some politically poisoned analysts of the project have resulted to flimsy, trivial and myopic points of reference as the reasons for discrediting the project. The argument that the project lack socio-economic benefits as argued by Edwin Okoth in his polemic article titled “Experts poke holes on plan to take power to every home” is self-defeating simply because access to electricity is the main economic driver. I personally do not agree with household-level analysis of an electrification project.

Electricity supply is not like a wifi hotspot that only allows those within a certain radius to benefit. The supply was primarily meant for all primary schools. However, due to the nature of electricity supply, many collateral beneficiaries such as households, market centers, private institutions and other establishments within the proximity of a transformer will use it to do business. The project therefore, has a massive ripple effect that makes it so useful in an economy.