Kenya Power announces outage across the country

A power outage hit most parts over the country from around 6am on Saturday.

Confirming the power outage, Kenya Power, in a statement, said: “We have lost power supply in the national grid due to a system disturbance which occured on our transmission network at 5:49am this morning.”

The cause of the power outage could not be immediately established.

“Our engineers are working to identify the hitch and address the hitch towards restoring normal  electricity supply,” reads the statement.

Kenya Power is set to issue an update on restoration progress and cause of the outage later on.