the ministry of energy has announced its commitment to significantly reduce the incidents of power outages across the country uh the government now says that it has rolled out comprehensive strategies aimed at tackling challenges boggling the sector including High electricity costs grade reliability and poor consumer sentiments this is report prepared by J boy just days after the country experienced yet another national black out the government has come out to say that it is working to reduce the frequency of this blackouts the Cs even saying that the government has set up a special team to respond to blackouts in record time so we thought to find out from cabinet secretary for energy and petroleum opio Wai what happened days ago when most of the country was plunged Into Darkness there was a malfunction of one of our equipment at suwa uh uh station and while the Cs remains noncommittal on the exact measures to eradicate blackouts he says that the government is doing all it can to see to it that Kenyans enjoy a stable supply of power and I'm not here to tell you that now blackouts will be a thing of the past no what I am here to tell you is that we have put in place measures and systems that would first and foremost mitigate against the blackout but if they happen that there would be a system to respond swiftly to the black house and restore power in the shortest time possible but what exactly is the government doing to stabilize a GED we are also continuing to invest in infrastructure both at the generation level in fact at the generation level by kenen and at the transmission level by so overall we have in excess of about uh 64 billion Shillings that we are working with that is on infrastructure development alone and we also sought to find out the impact of the constant scheduled power blackouts in different parts across the country this is really in line with our very serious commitment to ensure that the quality of Supply is going to be maintained so when we do see that there are some leaning PS or there are some things that need to be undertaken then we do issue them out because we do believe as a very Cardinal principle that prevention and really works in the power sector is always better than the repairs Jasmine wo Citizen TV Nairobi