State appoints committee to ‘prefect’ Kenya Power reforms

The committee will be implementing the recommendations made by the Presidential Taskforce on Review of PPAs. [File, Standard]

The Government has appointed a committee to oversee planned reforms at Kenya Power, shortly after the electricity firm was declared a special State project.

Industrial & Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC) Chairman John Ngumi will head the committee whose key mandate includes ensuring Kenya Power puts in places measures to bring down electricity prices by 33 per cent by end of this year.