Last week, in typical Kenyan style, we had a nationwide power outage that lasted from 2-7 hours depending on which part of the country. reportedly the government machinery went into a spin as it developed into a security issue. The cause was apparently a malfunction in the monopolized power utility firm, Kenya Power & Lighting Co. Ltd due to the large amount of diesel powered generators that we are using as a stop gap measure to avoid us being in perpetual darkness.
This was shortly followed by Safaricom’s cellular and Internet outage on Friday last week, due to 4 or 5 cuts on their main fibre optic ring network, either due to other Internet firms laying their fibre optic, and what was attributed to as sabotage at 2 of those points.
This was followed by Seacom’s claims that its main fibre optic line at Voi was sabotaged, resulting in downtime for its subscribers in the Coast area and Nairobi.
Now its sabotage of the country’s communication infrastructure due to the competitors’ hunger for domination of the market. This is extremely worrying and should be treated by the government as a threat to its nation security.
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