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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/4/2007 Posts: 1,162
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http://www.nation.co.ke/...2/-/70klku/-/index.html
This will singly contract the economy by 2% and will go a long way to ensure darkness in rural kenya. is it justified?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2009 Posts: 7,452
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I had warned wazuans on this back in August last year. I hope they to me seriously. Click on this link and read posts #61 #63 and #65. Is it justified? If you believe Kenya Power's calculations, then yes. You don't expect to pay a lower connection fee than what Kenya Power will spend on poles, cables, meters, transformers [shared cost] etc. to get the electricity to your house!!! The only way you can argue with this if the cost is significantly less than the 75k on average [sparsely populated rural areas and densely populated urban areas]. It is more expensive to connect rural consumers because of the sparse population but you cannot charge them more than urban consumers hence the averaging! Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2009 Posts: 7,452
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And by the way the cost has always be in the 70k to 75k region. The 40k on top was always paid by "development partners" as a subsidy. They pulled out, so you now pay the original 35k and extra 40k yourself! Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/5/2008 Posts: 532 Location: Nairobi
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Will 'China road & Quails Corp.' finance /subsidise the deficit? Yenyewe hii ni gava ya jubilee.At this rate achieving 7% Economic growth will remain a mirage.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/1/2010 Posts: 3,024 Location: Hapa
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Was wondering about people putting up flats or commercial buildings - will this be 75K for the connection to the building or to each unit? Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali🐝
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/7/2012 Posts: 11,908
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butterflyke wrote:Was wondering about people putting up flats or commercial buildings - will this be 75K for the connection to the building or to each unit?
Connection to the building! In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins - cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later - H Geneen
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/4/2007 Posts: 1,162
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I'm told to get a 3 phase line you cough up KES 123,000.00 or thereabouts up from 47k. Now can small cottage industries like welding workshops, garages and others running 3 phase machines grow?
It is better to shelve those laptops (that will make an Indian supplier very happy) and subsidize power, the effect on the economy will be bigger and better
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/17/2012 Posts: 1,461 Location: Ngong Forest
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Add this the tripled bills and the aggressiveness of getting paid, kweli we have to finance everything including the useless laptops for toddlers.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/21/2013 Posts: 2,841 Location: Here
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 Power connection cost to double as Treasury withdraws subsidy Quote:“We have not set aside any money for the Kenya Power subsidy in the 2014/15 financial year,” said Mr Rotich. “We were not going to finance this service on a sustainable basis.” Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/19/2012 Posts: 552
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In another thread I said it, DPORK was playing politics. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.... Leo Buscaglia
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/17/2012 Posts: 1,461 Location: Ngong Forest
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With that the rural ict and school computers is dead.
One of kibakis milestone is demolished
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/27/2010 Posts: 495 Location: Nairobi
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There is a direct correlation between the high charges of Kenya Power and this ==> BBC: Kenya refuses to send corruption suspects to Jersey: Quote:In 2003, a leaked report of an investigation by the Kenyan government said he had plundered the state-owned electricity corporation for several years - an allegation his lawyer denied. Quote: At the time Mr Gichuru was the head of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC).
He is accused of working with Mr Okemo to bank more than £3m ($5m) from the deal.
The two are accused of taking millions more in kickbacks from British, Norwegian and German engineering firms, as well as a US communications giant. Kibaki’s milestone, along with any hopes of industrializing Kenya using cheap power, is already long dead and buried. Sent from my Black Nokia 3310
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/1/2010 Posts: 3,024 Location: Hapa
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What's this last mile connectivity programme I read about that is supposed to cushion costs for rural households? Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali🐝
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/31/2009 Posts: 226
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Keep govt out of this the cost has always been 135000 subsidized by govt from funds am not sure from where but devolution is expensive i hear mcas are nowadays revered than mps we entered into devolution with good intent but we created small gods and a new eating level. if u were at the treusury btn paying teachers,doctors and remmiting billions to buys governors 300m in kilifi versus the connectiom subsides which one comes first. i will be a victim of this double increment but u cant rush to blam gava for every thing much as it has many shortcomings
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/23/2007 Posts: 604
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Things are not that bad. A quote I got last year around Aug-Oct of 35K is still valid. I paid 5k then and disappeared. Last month someone from Kenya Power called me and asked me to pay 5K extra and apply for Stima loan but I just postponed acting.
A recent statement from Kenya Power jostled me from my slumber, yesterday I paid the 5K, applied for Stima Loan and I'll be submitting Wiring/Electrician's report in 2weeks.......was told when the loan is credited to my account.
#The interest on the loan is a one-off 5% charge on 24,980, which is 1,249/=. Monthly repayments 1,087/= for 24 months.
I think the problem is for clients situated more than 600 meters from the nearest transformer.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/8/2013 Posts: 386 Location: Nyali mombasa
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wehh they at least agreed to review my quotation from 375,000k to 34,390/- my old ma should have power by next week.
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/23/2007 Posts: 604
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