Ours is a country of thieves; that’s why we have many power outages

Kenya Power's Kiambere -Embakasi highway voltage transmission powerline that collapsed last week. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Kenyans who were affected by the power outage in the middle of the week might have thought that it was the first major blackout in Kenya. A few years ago, there was a similar case and it was reportedly caused by a monkey, a narrative Kenyans refused to buy because power outages have become the norm in the country's recent history of corruption and rampant thievery.