SIGH OF RELIEF FOR KENYANS IN KIPSING AND OTHER REMOTE AREAS THAT DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO POWER SUPPLY

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:03][beating] [beating] My name is Joseph Lengima, I am a resident of Kipsing.

[00:00:29]We say thank you to the Ruto government for collaborating with our district administration to bring us electricity. At this hour, we are very happy to see the steam being made because we are struggling to even make a photocopy of the certificate to make even the children, while making their own chairs, go to the bank. But at this moment we thank President Ruto for bringing electricity here. We will be doing many things for ourselves here. Salon things, sewing things, children will be getting jobs there.

[00:01:05]We say thank you to our ghaffana for collaborating with Ruto, this is the development that is coming here, we even see this electricity project starting to protect our water. You know, here we are suffering from a water shortage, we are running out of river water, but we have seen that at this very hour, the same steam power plant office has started producing water for us. We are very grateful to our President Ruto.

[00:01:30]My name is Engineerja Ucheng Musa. I'm the project manager for COSAP project keeping uh segment.

[00:01:42]The project started two months ago. We are planning to finish by the end of July.

[00:01:49]Uh by the end of July the generation should be up uh and the solar power should be available but we take some time to do the connection. The project is 100 kW and we are planning to connect 198 families or households.

[00:02:11]198 year uh the coverage area uh covers all the keeping urban area that includes the public facilities. We have hostels, we have schools uh and also homes you know in several areas.

[00:02:37]Connected with this project is also the CSR that is being done side by side. So we are installing the water supply for keeping the urban area. We are doing a new water tower uh as part of the CSR and also uh repairing or installing the existing line which is no longer in use.

[00:03:02]We want it to be up and running and we have extended to a new location for a water tower to serve the wider area of the project will impact the community in a huge way because it will open up many avenues including you know uh better household management, lighting at night security and also pumping water. So, so these activities that go with electricity will easily be done. Yeah.

[00:03:38]So the impact will be significantly huge.

[00:03:42]Eng. Ela Musa, regarding the expectations of the project that the government is currently starting to bring, we Kipsing people are very happy because the expectations will bring a lot of development because at this time, technology is at this time, these young people are dependent on technology and in the future, we did not have things like this and if we have electricity, we will be happy because we will do many things, the youth will open businesses and even insecurity, we will have electricity, if we have electricity here, we will even be walking freely in our town and everything will be good, so we expect good things after this, there are many good things that will happen, so that's all, and by name, my name is Henry Soko, chief of Keeps Location, Sub County Isol County Isol, not a constituency, here is Keeps Location, which has a population of 5000 to 5500 people, that is the population of the local government in Kipsing, then Kipsing also has four primary schools, in Norsing Lwengenyi and Kavalash, then we also have one high school, a mixed Keeps Secondary School, and all of us do not have electricity.

[00:05:17]We also have a livestock market that is active but also has no power. We have the Kissing Catholic Parish, we have the town of Kibsing and we also have the CPK church which is an institution that I am not here and we also have a large camp at the top which also guides us in terms of safety.

[00:05:41]Kipsing we all have no electricity, none of us have electricity, only the madlight helps at times.

[00:05:52]So it is a great challenge so the things that are happening in the neighborhood at other times are still going on but once they get this electricity, many words will have been solved and then the youth will also get faster because when this electricity is opened or works, many youth will be active in the town making their own clothes, dobies and many things that will continue due to the phone being disconnected and paying for the season because paying for the phone is a challenge so I think you can even see in this town we have a kitchen garden which the villagers are making on their plots and from time to time elephants have entered and destroyed those fields, the school fence was damaged and even the tanks were broken into by elephants because of the lack of electricity and the gisa is what makes all those words so exciting. So once Kiata this power I will be ahead will be one taon msuri in Oliro suby because we have solar panels which all this power will help the Kipsinia community here they use solar and also there is a coffin and there is also a coffin and the government which will now help speed up the burning of windows and doors. So jobs will arise [for the construction of the building] and we also have balls that sometimes break down, but if we get this power, we will connect this power to those active balls, then the water problem will be a thing of the past.

[00:07:49]Now when darkness comes, we have a real problem with these animals because they prefer the dark.

[00:07:57]Eh now the livestock at that time only get time to take the livestock when we do n't have that electricity very much it 's hyenas very much the animal that bothers here is hyenas eh and when even these ants are bothering on the road if you walk you can delay this town go there to manyata you meet that ants so you see there are many animals and it's dark time now you see and light comes or will it escape or will it help yes even if they don't escape but it will be better because these offices we are cooking with those who are bothering us for eh for manyata it will be better because it won't be just dark as usual so it seems it will be better if we have that electricity shapiana shapi shapi Lekkurana Kururana m now sir you see what progress or what activities are being done here for development after getting it even now let me help him a little let this one come in let me help a little eh by name I am Joseph Lemingani I am also a resident of here eh here Kipsing now eh for that development I see we will have a lot of progress here with electricity because we will have a salon we will have The barber and the things of charging this mobile system or other things will be helped because we are always worried, there is no time when you come even with just the phone or you can't find a place to charge it, let alone the things of the barber, the barber is now just a problem now I see Nasifu, these people of this company have brought us inspiration. I highly praise them because they have brought us progress. And we ask, we ask, they help us make this happen because if those people still have electricity, we will have been greatly helped.

[00:10:15]Thank you, my friend.

[00:10:20][laughter] Here we use these solar panels, these borrowed ones, that's what we use.

[00:10:26]There's nothing else we use much, that's all. Oh, and while others are just staying in the dark.

[00:10:32]My name is Shapi Kurana and I live here in Kipsinge.

[00:10:38]We have seen that we have been without electricity for a long time due to this problem. Now we have seen that the electricity is continuing to finish now and if electricity comes in here it will be a lot, we will be able to do any business here in Kipsik and we are very grateful to those who have brought us electricity, even though we see that people have started to see now that business will continue this way, because even though we have the CEO of Lance here, we have county officers here, we are asking Mr. Gavor, this town, as you walked here, you see how much we have built, we have only built our own.

[00:11:12]We are asking you before politics, before we say we arrive, put in planning matters here, this plague, let's leave the rest to all of us, here is what has been written more, so for this many, for this few, Mr. Governor, we said how much are you, how much are you, how much are you, so the witness is these, not me, so thank you for him, then give us others, thank you, Mr. The, this county of Isol, how much has the president set aside for them? Five for the money the money we have invested in those mini grids is 433 million and the people who will be electrified as a result of these mini-grids are 2460 people at a cost of 433 million sh. Let's applaud our president in this county.

[00:12:11]He added another money if you put that 433. He added another money because like that line that Mr. Guyo is talking about, that of Oldonyiro, that is there in Malkadaka, all those projects, the money the president has put in here in Kisiolo county is 88 million. Let's applaud our president again [joy].

[00:12:40]And this program of error and I want to talk to the Kenyans, the program of error, the mining that is being built all over Kenya, starting from Isiolo, going to Samburu, going to West Pogcot, going to Turukana, going to Malsabit, going to Wajia, going to Mandera, going to Garis, Tana River, Lamu, Taita, Taveta, Narok, 14 counties are spending 9.6 billion shillings to construct 114 miles. Let's applaud our president.

[00:13:18][joy] Now, you citizens of Oldoniro, do you want jobs or do you want politics? Aaka.

[00:13:27]Do you want a job or politics?

[00:13:28]Work. Do you want a job or politics?

[00:13:31]Work. Do n't you want a job?

[00:13:33]Because with the current government, citizens cannot simply eat a leader like bait. How can a citizen not overtake a leader? Meat.

[00:13:44]But a leader is known by words and actions. At this time there is a minigrid that is being built. And by July, people here, we will have provided electricity for 234 people, 234 houses, let's call our president [joy] and that's why we are telling leaders to look at what they are doing, look at what they are doing yesterday and you saw we had a very important conference in Nairobi, more than 30 heads of state were here in Kenya, which means that the whole world recognizes the leadership of William Samuel Ruto [beating applause] Jose