Outrage as Blackout Delays on Several Hours Later

Kenyans have expressed their outrage as the power outage continues into Saturday morning.

The country was slammed by a blackout on Friday evening, which affected much of the country, including Kenyatta International Airport.

Even though power had been restored at the airport and other parts of Nairobi, the majority of the city remained in darkness.

Kenyans have flocked to the social media network X, formerly Twitter, to air their grievances.

According to user Makori Abuga, such a scenario is enough to force the minister in charge of the energy docket to resign.

“In mature democracies, people like Davies Chirchir would have RESIGNED by now.  President William Ruto should think of handing over KPLC to KDF. The whole country still witnessing blackout. Kenya Power is so shameless! Businesses and activities grounded for 12 hours!” he said.

“Imagine if a plane was landing at JKIA yesterday and the pilot was in communication with the control tower then just once the communication is cut and even the pilot can’t see the runway lights due to a #blackout caused by Kenya power. It would have been a disaster. KPLC = Scam,” Pauline Njoroge said.

Former CAS David Osiany was perplexed as to why Kenya Power delayed more than an hour to issue a statement regarding the nationwide blackout.

Another user, Gabriel Oguda, proposed that Kenya Power be handed over to the Ministry of Defence.

“It’s clear the Minister for Energy doesn’t understand the national security implications of having a nationwide blackout,” he said in a tweet.

Kenya Power has blamed the blackout on a system disturbance.