Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC, the utility firm charged with hooking households to the electricity mains, has so far connected 494,374 under a five-year subsidised electricity project launched in September 2015.
The project funded by the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Kenyan government targeted customers situated near transformers and was to be carried out in three phases.
The lender, which recently blacklisted a Chinese firm involved in the project last month invited firms to tender for the provision of audit services for the project, a process that will subsequently inform support for future Kenya Power projects.
“The independent development evaluation function of the African Development Bank Group invites individual consultants to indicate their interest for the impact evaluation of the Last Mile Connectivity Project in Kenya,” said the bank in a tender notice.
Chinese company Sinotec contracted by Kenya Power for the second phase of Last Mile Project is said to have misrepresented its experience to meet qualification requirements for several AfDB-funded projects in what may have compromised the quality of connections.