How ageing Kenya Power generators are crippling livelihoods in remote Lamu Islands
At least 20,000 residents of Lamu East have been plunged into a month-long blackout after two ageing diesel generators broke down, crippling fishing businesses, disrupting essential services and leaving students struggling to study.
The power crisis has renewed scrutiny of a decision by Kenya Power to transfer old generators from Lamu Island to Faza after the island was connected to the national electricity grid in 2016, with residents demanding a lasting solution to years of unreliable electricity supply.
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