Kenya Power Chief Security Officer Western Region Zachary Ombati noted that in the last one month, there has been spike of transformer vandalism within the county. Ombati said the company has lost 11 transformers approximately valued at Sh 500,000 each within Kisumu county. Ombati said they have been trailing various suspects and following some leads and for the last one week, they got information that they were targeting a trasformer within Korowe area. “We put our men on the ground to gather the intelligence, so on Saturday morning we got information that a team was surveying transformers which they had a target of three, so we also mobilized our team to take care of those three transformers but unfortunately they came to this one”. He said they managed to arrest the two and still pursuing those who escaped.

Source: The Star March 07, 2021 09:00 UTC