Kenya’s Partial Blackout: Best and Funniest Reactions

Early this morning(10:45am), Kenya went into a partial Blackout with several major towns lacking electricity including Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Malindi, Kwale, Watamu, Kisumu, Nakuru and Kisii.

Kenya Power officially shared that they’ve lost power supply due to collapsed transmission towers at the Kiambere-Embakasi high voltage transmission line.They continued to say that their engineers are working to restore electricity supply in the country.

Netizens took to Twitter to share their thoughts and here are the best and funniest reactions.

Sasa stima ni kitu ya kunyima mtu? 🥲
— 𝐌𝐫. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 🇿🇦 (@bradshawmaina) January 11, 2022

Sai ata uambiwe kitu huezi kuwa shocked
— Solange Mbunde (@ianmbunde) January 11, 2022

https://t.co/9LGDhbzRXg https://t.co/1whnikbMeG
— Bill™ (@StillBiIl) January 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/nakuruicon/status/1480546899866406912?t=qmtras-qwZayANGx49vl_Q&s=19

“Najua hamna stima but I can light up your world” sends to many
— Mutinda (@brianmutinda_) January 11, 2022

Power bill will be 15% less if there’s no power 15% of the time. pic.twitter.com/Thi3sKDCs7
— 🪔Kimmie2Times🪔 (@Trackmann2) January 11, 2022

And then it happened 3 days later 😅😅😅. Hii Kenya is like a series https://t.co/99rRo4JL9o
— Aloyo (@I_Am_Aloyo) January 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/Mollage_/status/1480810843533099008?t=6XZOc9DRAov2Kvol1OOphQ&s=19

"Hawa Kenyans wanapenda kutuonea sana. I mean, we were just chilling." #KPLC #KenyaPower pic.twitter.com/sA6mHTzgqW
— Sinia Kanso 🇰🇪 (@YuriBaraza) January 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/breegathoni2/status/1480824880258076674?t=FJamI9HtbLyEWSfrVZwoug&s=19

Stop lying. https://t.co/XybglxhWUe pic.twitter.com/LoeQyooTDg
— ︎ B (@_ngwata) January 11, 2022

So were this 'cuts' in power prices done at the cost of the actual providing of the power?
— Marcus Olang' (@marcusolang) January 11, 2022

“Hi, tuko na stima” pic.twitter.com/p7bl73Vay1
— Brian Mbunde ™ (@Brianmbunde) January 11, 2022

I have so much to do but no power means I can go back to bed. pic.twitter.com/cDQYbIcTTu
— phantéau (@_wangwe) January 11, 2022

I chose the worst day to be running errands in govt offices.

"Mko na shughuli zingine muende murudi Baadae kidogo. Hii stima imeharibu system"

🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️
— Hungerpangs™ 🇰🇪 🇪🇷 (@ShikoWAwanjish) January 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/mbithi/status/1480833208379977728?t=Yi37AiVf0-XWzvJSD9PPqQ&s=19