Cable thefts reach worrying levels

Increased theft of electricity and telephone cables is a threat to economic development even as it reaches new depths of impunity with law enforcers watching helplessly. Last week, a major electricity transmission line linking Nairobi with Mombasa was brought down by vandals at the coast. A report by the Standard newspaper says the thieves brought down electricity pylons and stole the wire for sale as scrap metal. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company puts losses from this single incident at K

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