Lawyer Apollo Mboya and the Electricity Consumer Society of Kenya have sued Kenya Power over inflated bills. They filed a class action suit on Thursday over higher bills amounting to Sh8.1 billion for the months of November and December 2017. The figure was initially Sh10.1 billion but the government recovered Sh2 billion.
The petitioners want the High Court to declare that Kenya Power made a false and misleading representation in electricity tariffs and bills, thereby infringing on the rights of consumers. "Kenya Power is illegally imposing inflated bills..." Mboya and the society state in court documents. "The threat by Kenya Power to disconnect electricity if consumers fail to pay the demanded amount is unreasonable and the court ought to intervene."
The petitioners want the court to issue a permanent injunction for Kenya Power not to send its customers' back-dated bills. They also want an order for the director general to conduct a forensic audit of Kenya Power and the exploitation of electricity generation capacity to determine consumers' value for money. Mboya, who is former Law Society of Kenya chairman, further says the monopoly the company enjoys is unconstitutional.
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