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How Kenya Power ‘lost’ over 1m meters in Last Mile project
What started as disappearance of a few thousand pre-paid meters became a major scandal.
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over 1m meters lost, we keep blaming politicians but we forget one important thing, politicians came from us, they are us, our families, spouse, ,friends etc.
We all rejoice when "mungu amewaonekania" but froth when accused of the same.
Corruption in Kenya will never end as along the citizenry is in it one way or the other.
I think the president was right akiuliza mnataka afanye nini, yet we all rush to give that 50 or give orders to our employees in banks ,saccos and mfis to not scrutinize the source of funds or assist them in filing them to cover their tracks after "wameangukia" deal "safi".
kwa papers pia kuna story ya poles which grape vipes inasema mtoto wa hustler pia "aliangukia" deal ya 5 years to supply poles.
"At the time, the fraud was low key. A member of staff would be given about 200 metres and go and dump them with one customer or activate them and claim they had been connected. The only problem was that though active, the meters were not vending, which means no one was actually using them.
When Mr Cheruiyot’s team did a random visit to a site in Nairobi, his men found 193 new prepaid meters in the custody of a customer."
As the company closed its eyes on the matter, its staff and an army of contractors recruited to support the company to connect as many people as possible started cheating the system. Four years later, what started as just several thousands of meters lost had turned into a shocking case of pilferage.
Credible sources within the organisation have told the Sunday Nation that over one million meters have now disappeared from Kenya Power warehouses and cannot be accounted for as the rot at the utility company unravels.
A meter costs about Sh2,500, so one million missing meters translates to a loss of over Sh2.5 billion. If you factor in the opportunity cost of lost business if the meters had been connected to real consumers who were paying, this would run into tens of billions of shillings.
