Elegeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen on Friday night flexed his muscles and forced the Kenya Power to suspend their scheduled power outage in his county on Saturday. Kenya Power had issued a scheduled power outage in the a county where Eliud Kipchoge who is attempting to run a sub-two hour in marathon, has been training. Change your plans https://t.co/5LDZRHxPpV — KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN, E.G.H (@kipmurkomen) October 11, 2019An hour before the race started, he told his constituency that Kenya Power had agreed to hold on their scheduled power outage. “Kenya power promises to hold the outage until Eliud Kipchoge completes this great challenge INEOS159. On behalf of the people of Elgeyo Marakwet, I say thank you!

Source: Daily Nation October 12, 2019 07:41 UTC