By MN Reporter
Migori county commissioner Boaz Cherutich has ordered arrest of vandals and thieves targetting Kenya Power transformers.
Cherutich, is also the chairman of the Migori County Development Implementation and Coordination Committee (CDICC) .
“Gangs are sabotaging the region’s economy by deliberately cutting off power supplies to schools, business entities and even health facilities through their illegal acts of destroying power lines and vandalizing transformers,” he said.
He said government will not “sit back and watch this kind of economic sabotage being perpetrated by these gangs. Police must now act swiftly to arrest or gun down the culprits if necessary to bring this thuggery to an end,” he said during the committee’s meeting in his boardroom yesterday.
The Kenya power company is losing millions of shillings repairing lines and replacing transformers vandalised by the gangs.
Migori Kenya Power manager George Nyambare said company lines and transformers had become so vulnerable to gangs believed to be conspiring with former employees of the company to steal them.
He said through the illegal lines, vandalism of power kits and illegal connections, the company was losing millions of shillings every day in the area alone and face power blackouts.
Nyambare reported that the company was working on a comprehensive plan to remedy frequent power blackouts in the region.
“We are looking forward to putting up several power stations along the long line from Kisii to Isebania in order to easily know specific spots where electricity faults emerge on the long stretch of the lines for immediate correction,” he explained.
