The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) has restored power grid in Kisii County after an attack on its substation plunging the devolved unit into darkness on Tuesday.
A gang raided KETRACO’s Kegati 132/33kV power substation in an unprecedented incident Tuesday morning.
According to KETRACO Managing Director (MD) John Mativo, the company had energized transformer TX1 and loaded four outgoing 33kV feeder lines to serve customers.
Mativo said the lines restored power to Kisii, Kiamakoma, Kilgoris, and Kisii East towns.
“Following Tuesday’s vandal invasion of KETRACO owned Kegati 132/33kV sub-station in Kisii County, we are glad to report that we have managed to energize KETRACO’s transformer TX1 and loaded four outgoing 33kV feeder lines to serve customers.”
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KETRACO said its team was working jointly with Kenya Power to lay and terminate Homabay feeder cables vandalized by the gang.
Further, the joint team will repair and restore transmission transformer 2 belonging to Kenya Power.
KETRACO urged the members of the public to refrain from engaging themselves in vandalism of any kind.
“If found involved in the mentioned criminal activities under the Act, one would be liable to a fine of not less than Kes 5 million” or face a ten-year term imprisonment,” Mativo.
