@Okechukwu, but on the other hand it can take decades before the government builds a road to your plot. What you guys forget is after you pay Kenya power money to bring electricity to your plot, ownership of the power cables and electric posts becomes yours and you are free to charge any new person who wishes to get connected via your line.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
This is an interesting discussion, since we don't directly pay the
Ministry of Roads to build any roads to our plots. I was told about
Mauritius where the government constructs roads, sewer lines, electric
poles and any other utilities on land in towns and municipalities
during the time when the surveyor sub-divides the land. This is really
the way it should be.

./Ok3ch

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Memusi <tonatech@gmail.com> wrote:
> Its parastatals.if private maybe its different.research other countries?
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:03 PM, James Kagwe <kagwejg@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> KPLC is the only Company that diverts all it operational costs to the
>> consumer. Have u ever looked at their bill keenly? Items on the list
>> includes, Foreign exchange adjustments, fuel cost adjustments etc, which
>> company is not affected by the foreign exchange in Kenya and with the
>> current dwindling of the shilling value against the dollar? Do all companies
>> divert the costs to the consumers?  Soon you will see staff costs and
>> inflation costs on the bill. I think for them all the money we pay is net
>> profit. I just hope that one day a miracle will happen and there will be
>> another power provider or the wind and solar technologies are well developed
>> to large scale and we forget about them. That day they will learn just like
>> Telekom did. For now we have to bear the costs.
>>
>> These prohibitive costs of installation and consumption are the cause of
>> lack of power installation in many schools making it impossible to use
>> computers even if they were provided for free.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>> Which company On 6/23/2011 11:08 AM, Gituma Nturibi wrote:
>>
>> As I watched the re-branding of KPLC to Kenya power I asked myself a
>> question which I've asked before
>> Why do we pay them to get connections and transformers closer to us? i.e
>> the Umeme pamoja scheme. Where do customers pay for a service to be brought
>> to them? I mean their business is selling power. Do safaricom and the other
>> networks ask us to  pa to set up base stations, I dunno the exact cost but
>> I'm sure it's much more than the cost of a transformer and 2km of power
>> lines! Isn't a business supposed to spend money on infrastructure? The
>> mobile networks spend billions every year in expansion. Kenya Airways spends
>> billions to acquire new aircraft to fill with passengers etc.
>> I think this is just an antiquated business model back from the parastatal
>> days. Hey even their sister company Kengen does not ask us to pay for new
>> generators...
>> Just thinking...
>>
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