The National Assembly Committee on Energy on Thursday adjourned its session after Kenya Power Managing Director Joseph Siror failed to appear to shed light on issues relating to his docket.
According to the Committee Chairperson Vincent Musyoka, Siror was expected to respond to concerns of Kenyans incurring high electricity bills and reveal the criteria used to determine the charges for power connections for customers.
Further, he was required to address the lack of power of supply at Mukuru kwa Njenga area in Embakasi South Constituency for almost three years.
The committee Chairperson, who is also the Mwala MP, called on all public officers to be accountable in their work.
“This committee has the responsibility of protecting the public interest through oversight. We therefore need the MD to appear before us and answer to questions relating to his docket,” said Musyoka.
This comes amid concerns on the cost of electricity in the country. While appearing before a Parliamentary committee in August last year, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu said that Kenya Power overcharged Kenyans up to 20 per cent for power they did not use.
Gathungu, while probing the power bills, said her office discovered high cases of faulty check meters and differences in figures between the main meters and check meters.
Check meters are used to validate or verify the accuracy of main meters. According to Gathungu, only 39 per cent of generation plants supplying power to Kenya Power had check meters.“Almost 20 per cent of the bill to consumers cannot be matched to actual consumption neither can the distribution company attribute it to a specific consumer,” she said then.