In Kenya, the Lamu County was finally connected to the national power grid after relying on diesel-powered generators for 53 years.

Using generators all these decades has slowed the region’s economic development; this is a situation which the region’s heads wish to change. “No investor was ready to risk and establish an industry in Lamu while relying on power from generators. Businesses have made losses on various occasions after electricity was cut off. That is now in the past, said the region’s governor,” Issa Timamy.

Besides the Lamu County, the government is working to connect, in the same region, the 300,000 homes of the Kiambu County by the second half of 2017, under its Last Mile Connectivity project.

Gwladys Johnson