| Updated Tue, June 13th 2017 at 12:03 GMT +3The government’s data on new electricity connections made in the last five years is untrue and needs clarification. Last week, Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter stated during a radio interview that Kenya is poised to achieve universal electricity access by 2020. “In 2013 we had 2,264,508 people connected to electricity but currently we have six million,” he said. Data from the Kenya Economic Survey released early this year indicates that there are 33,202 primary schools in the country. If indeed 23,547 schools have been connected to the grid, this brings the coverage to 70 per cent and not 98.8 per cent as claimed by the Ministry of Energy.

Source: Standard Digital June 13, 2017 09:00 UTC