Parliament has asked the anti-corruption watchdog to investigate Energy ministry officials who blocked electricity generator KenGen from connecting Sh79.3 billion geothermal wells to the national grid.
This is after it emerged that KenGen incurred billions of shillings in the drilling of wells for geothermal power but which have remained unutilised for the past seven years.
“The committee recommends that the EACC [Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission] investigates the circumstances under which KenGen was denied approvals to connect ready wells to the national grid,” the National Assembly Public Investments Committee, chaired by Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir, said in a report to the House.