Kenya Power logo. [Photo/kp.co.ke]
As a public entity, Kenya Power has to stop tricking Kenyans and put its house in order and this means that it has to run its operations transparently and raise its revenues genuinely.
Recently there has been a revelation that the power company is instituting some very high tariffs on consumers supposedly to restore costs that it had hidden as it was playing politics with last year's bills.
It has emerged that the firm acquired very heavy expenses in sourcing for power but hid the information due to the this would raise an alarm of high bills during the election year.
Now that elections are over, KP has now resorted to billing the consumer with the heavy bills and this depicts a very dishonest way of doing business.
When drought hits, it has its implications on the costs of power generation and this is something that the consumers do understand but hiding this fact and playing games on the consumer's mind is very fraudulent.
Expansion of power supply was a key campaign agenda by the Jubilee Administration last year and the leadership crisscrossed each and every part of the country switching on lights even in mud-walled and grass-thatched houses to prove that power was accessible to all and sundry.
Cost of Installation costs were reduced by such a large margin and the mode of payment relaxed to allow as many as possible to access power.
However, in light of the new revelations of the operations of Kenya Power, one wonders whether such initiatives were genuine or sheer political stunts to woo votes.
What Kenya Power is doing is unacceptable; it demonstrates that the corporation thrives on deception. It must stop public extortion.