Business Daily | by Constant Munda
Kenya missed to connect nearly 1.28 million homes and businesses to electricity in the three years through June 2020, largely blamed on budget cuts, shortage of poles and sluggish tax exemption approval.
The Energy Ministry says Kenya Power and Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (Rerec) connected 1,522,858 customers to the national grid in the three-year period, a 45.61 percent shortfall over the 2.8 million goal.
The agencies connected 581,639 out of 1.2 million customers targeted in the year ended June 2018 and…
