The Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) has finally broken silence on the cause of fire at the Hillside Endarasha Academy fire tragedy.
The report by Kenya Power comes at a time when reports went viral that an electricity fault that emanated from a bulb explosion was the cause of fire that killed 21 pupils in Hillside Endarasha Academy.
However, Kenya Power has come out to address these claims, claiming that according to their investigations, there was no link between the cause of the fire and its network of power supply lines.
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According to Kenya Power, their investigations at the school revealed that if the fire was as a result of an electrical fault, some of the items like prepaid meters located within the larger school’s complex could have been affected which evidently were not.
“All Kenya Power installations including the meter, supply cable, earthings, low voltage and high tension fuses, and the transformer were intact,” Kenya Power stated in their statements.
Kenya Power also revealed that the line which supplied electricity to the school was a low-voltage line from the Mweiga sub-station and that the supply was stable at the time when the fire incident occurred.
“As a Company, electrical safety is of utmost priority in all our operations. Our team in Nyeri switched off the power supply to the school as a precautionary measure while handling fire incidences.”
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This comes after a pupil who survived the Hillside Endarasha Academy fire tragedy claimed that sparks from a bulb caused the fire that burnt down the dormitory, a statement Kenya Power has refuted.