Poor residents of Muoroto slums in Mombasa now get electricity

LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAMME Muoroto slums resident, Saum Charo points at electrical gadgets in her house at Tudor in Mombasa County. This is donor funded programme implemented by Kenya power. Slums villages are getting power at a fordable rate. 18th March 2017. Photo Omondi Onyango/Standard

Administration officials are happy crime rate in the coast region has plunged courtesy of the National government’s Sh18.5 billion Last Mile Connectivity linking close to one million households to the power grid.

The project together with the street lighting initiative is driving the crime rate down and officials are happy it is restoring confidence, increase small scale trade and boosting tourism in the coast region.