A family in Tudor Mombasa is accusing the Kenya Power and Lighting company(KPLC) of inflating their electricity bill

The family of  veteran Kanu politician said  the parastatal has inflated the bill to over a Sh 1 million.

 Kirigu who is also a sister to late former powerful cabinet minister Jackson Angaine during late President Daniel Arap Moi's era said she is tired of being frustrated by employees from the power company who she accused of asking for bribes whenever they visit her house, she is now seeking for President Uhuru Kenyatta’s attention.

She said she wanted the President to be aware of what she was undergoing through the KPLC employees.

“Let the President know what I am undergoing through the media since I am unable to reach him,” she said.

She was narrating her ordeal to the press at her family house in Mvita constituency, Mombasa county.

The ailing Kanu politician said she is bitter with the way she is being treated and wants to put an end to it.

Kirigu reiterated the government must end corruption at the state corporation which she said is at an alarming state.

She insisted time has come for the Jubilee administration to overhaul the management of the state corporation which was long overdue.

“The state corporation’s behavior is the talk of the county,” she pointed out.

Kirigu’s elder daughter Sophia Maalim told journalists they became tenants of the three bedroom house in 2015 and by the end of the year nobody had come for meter reading at their house.

She said it was until  the end of 2019 that they began seeing KPLC employees coming to read the electricity meter.

“They have formed a habit of walking in and out of the house without courtesy as though they are the owners of the house,” she pointed out.

The daughter said a bill of Sh 1 million was posted to them and KPLC demanded a payment of Sh500,000 failure to which the power supply to the house would be disconnected.

Sophia said the family was shocked with the state corporation employees’ attitude during this time when measures are in place to fight the coronavirus.

“At some stage my ailing mother was forced to stay in the rental house in darkness for a month after the power supply was disconnected,” she added.

The daughter said the family was forced to part with Sh 300,000 for reconnection of power supply and wondered why they have suddenly come back to harass them.

Sophia acknowledged the house belonged to a landlord who took his wife for treatment outside the county but was locked out due to the global outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

She said they had agreed with the KPLC management that the matter be put on hold but wondered why the turn of events while the landlord is out of the country.

“The move by the power company took the family by surprise and our efforts to be given previous electricity bills have been fruitless,” she pointed out.

The daughter told journalists last month they were issued with a monthly bill of Sh 84.000 and wondered how a three bedroom house could consume power like a business premises.