Kenya Power has assured Kenyans that there won't be a national power outage as has been reported on social media. In a statement, the power supplier said the misleading information is a misinterpreted alert it issued for specific areas where it plans to carry out routine maintenance. "The information is misinterpreted from a regular alert on routine scheduled preventive maintenance carried out by the company issued to customers prior for planning purposes." Kenya Power routinely issues alerts whenever it plans to interrupt power supply to carry out repairs, upgrade or transfer power lines or connect new customers. But the alert issued on Saturday appeared to have thrown a section of Kenyans into panic mode.

Source: The Star February 24, 2019 08:48 UTC