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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.
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