- Kenya National Assembly Departmental Committee on Energy probes KPLC.
- Lake Turkana Wind Power wired millions of shillings to wrong accounts.
The National Assembly Departmental Committee on Energy is probing the apocryphal payment of millions of shillings paid to Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) for unsupplied power.
Kenya Members of Parliament (MPs) will probe KPLC officials over Sh600 million in excess paid to the Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) for a project in Marsabit.
Former Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (Ketraco) Managing Director Fernandes Barasa resigned hours before responding to the National Assembly Public Investments Committee (PIC) audit queries.
The PIC had also invited Senior Kenya Power Managers to explain why the money was paid. LTWP is said to have wired millions of shillings to wrong accounts, raising concerns among Parliamentarians.
The Committee is curious and wants to investigate why KPLC provided LTWP with erroneous accounts and who was responsible for the act. Thus, the MPs were baffled by Fernandes Barasa’s abrupt resignation when he was supposed to appear before the Committee.