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How State drive to light up poor homes left Kenya Power groping in financial darkness

Over the last one and a half decades, the rate of new connections to Kenya's national electricity grid has been one of the highest in Africa and possibly the world.

The number of households and businesses with access to power had grown to 7.2 million of June this year from 686,000 in 2003.

New electricity connections registered the highest growth in the current decade when the current administration...