In Summary: Senior KPLC staff may face charges of Negligence after the Nationwide Black out
Written By Henry Kimoli
Ten senior officials at the Kenya Power Company who were last night arrested over claims of sabotaging electricity supply, are expected in court today.
The ten including the General manager in charge network are expected court for miscellaneous application as police also investigate suspicion of negligence.
They were summoned to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters where they were questioned and later driven to Muthaiga police cells ahead of the arraignment.
Investigations have revealed that a joint task force by Kenya Power and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) had on December 8 furnished the Board with a report that, among other things, recommended that the basement of angle towers of Kenya Power’s high voltage power lines in Embakasi had been vandalised and the cross beams unbolted.
The information was however ignored leading to the collapse that caused a major outage.
Detectives have visited the scene and established that the basement of the Angle Towers of Kenya Power High voltage power lines had been vandalized and the cross beams unbolted and removed.
On Monday, detectives raided the Stima Plaza and carted away computers and other documentation to retrieve the internal communication to establish reports that there was prior communication about the vandalism.
Police said six towers along the Olkaria-Kisumu power line were also vandalised in Naivasha on Tuesday.
