Humanitarian Development Program - 20,000 more to get electricity at coast

20,000 more to get electricity at coast (09/02/07)

Twenty thousand more households in Coast Province will be provided with electricity by the end of the year, according to the Kenya Power and Lighting Company.

The power would be supplied through the rural electrification programme, Mr Robert Mahaga, the company's Coast region communications and marketing manager, said.

Mr Mahaga was speaking when he received an eight-tonne forklift supplied by German company Jungheinrich at the KPLC Mbaraki compound.

The forklift will be used to arrange and erect electricity poles.

"The programme covers all the 21 constituencies in the province but is expected to have a major impact in rural areas," he said.

The manager said the Hola project was unique because it would use two generators instead of receiving supply from the national grid.

Mr Mahaga said KPLC was working on 80 electricity projects in the province.

"The company will use Sh230 million to complete the projects," he added.

The money to be spent on the Coast projects is part of the Sh3.9 billion set aside for electricity development programmes planned for the country in the 2006/2007 financial year.

Source: The Nation

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