Kenyan authorities are yet to solve the issue of power cuts ever since the blackouts began over a year ago. In this recent power outage, the two terminals at the JKIA airport was affected, affecting operations for several hours.
Households were not left out as they were left without power for hours. This infuriated the public, leading to severe criticisms to the government .
Kenyans are seeking answers after a nationwide power cut plunged the country into darkness on Sunday night.
The power cut hit at about 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT), making it Kenya’s third countrywide blackout in the past four months.
The outage interrupted several services, including the operations at the main airport in the capital, Nairobi, where two terminus went without power for several hours.
A lot of Kenyans have lashed out at the government, as their frustration keeps mounting over the repeated power interruptions.
However, by Monday morning, power had been restored to most parts of the country, except for certain parts of Nairobi and the Coast region.
Kenya Power, the state-run power provider, had in its most recent update said that they were doubling their efforts to restoring normalcy to the remaining areas as soon as possible.
Mr Murkomen, the Transport Minister has been lambasted for letting another blackout hit the main airport: the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport –JKIA.
This is despite making a vow in August (when Kenya endured its longest countrywide power outage in recent years) that a power outage at the airport would not repeat itself.
The outage affected two of the busiest JKIA terminals, with the airports authority describing that the back-up generators serving those terminals “had declined to immediately activate”.
To this, Mr Murkomen claimed that the outage may have been an act of vandalism.
Kenya began suffering several national power outages as from November and December 2022, 11 November, 25 August, 4 March.
