All households will be connected to electricity before 2030 – Kindiki

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has expressed confidence that every household in Kenya will be connected to electricity before 2030.

He noted that while the government planned to achieve this under Vision 2030, the aspiration will be achieved sooner, with only 4.1 million households left.

Speaking during a meeting with elected leaders from the North Eastern region, Kindiki said significant strides have been made in the last decade to have all households connected to the grid.

“When President Uhuru Kenyatta was elected with William Ruto in 2013, only 2.7 million households had power. In 10 years, they were able to push it to 8.9 million. It was the second increment in terms of household electrification in the world in 10 years,” he said.

He added that since President William Ruto took office, the number of households with electricity has risen from 8.9 million to 10.5 million.

“I think in another year, another 1 million households will be onboarded with power,” Kindiki said.

The government’s target is to have all 15.6 million households in the country connected by 2030.

“It is five years away, and we have 4.1 million households left. We will reach there,” he affirmed.

The government has been spearheading the initiative alongside partners under the Last Mile Connectivity Drive. The initiative is already in progress in all 290 constituencies countrywide.

The Deputy President assured the Northern Kenya leaders that the government is also on track to complete roads that had stalled in the region.

He said the Kenya Kwanza administration has come up with a sustainable financing model, and contractors who abandoned the roads over six years ago are now back to work.

“We are on course with our roads programme, but it has stalled. We have come up with an innovative financing model to sustain road construction for the remainder of this term and beyond through the securitisation model. Contractors who had abandoned road projects six years ago have started going back.

“I hope that model will help us expedite the northern Kenya roads. Especially the Lamu-Ijara-Garissa-Isiolo- Isiolo and of course the famous road. The president's road. The competition will be a game changer for not just Northern Kenya but the whole of Kenya,” Kindiki stated.