Keter blames KLPC for inflated bills

By Maryanne Nyambura

The Government has now admitted that estimations by Kenya Power and Lightning Company (KPLC) employees are to blame for the inflated electricity bills.

Many Kenyans have been frustrated by the sudden escalation of power bills with city lawyer Apollo Mboya filing a court suit over the same.

KPLC has in the past given little or no explanation only maintaining that it cannot read all meters across the country which compels it to base its readings on estimates.

However, Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter now says the government intends to standardise bill generation.

“We do not want estimation…we will change the system so that bills for those on postpaid can even be seen on a graph that will show how many units you have used,” he said.

In the court case, KPLC also attributes high power bills to its migration from the old system–the Integrated Service–to the new Integrated Consumer Management System.

This even as the Energy Regulatory Commission says an error from the Government Printer is to blame for wrongly backdated bills.