In accordance with this year’s Mashujaa day national celebration theme which embraces transforming lives through sustainable energy solutions, the national government through the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum is installing a 40,000 metric tonnes ultra-modern Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage facility for use by Kitui county residents.
This was revealed yesterday by Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi during his inspection tour at Kitui Teachers Training College, where the said LPG’s storage facility installation project is underway.
Speaking during the tour, Wandayi reiterated that the project seeks to ensure that every household, school or public institutions across the vast Kitui county can easily access affordable safe cooking gas
“Affordability and accessibility are at the heart of our strategy. By building infrastructure and also encouraging competition, we will lower prices and increase supply.
“This is how we plan to secure clean energy for all Kenyans while protecting our forests and environment too,” said Wandayi.
The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum is also set to distribute over 24,000 gas cylinders to the county residents across all the county’s eight constituencies.
The CS, who was accompanied by a team of senior government officials from his ministry inspected ongoing preparation of clean energy exhibitions activities, as the country prepares to mark ‘Energy Week’ set to begin next week, starting on Monday 13 to Friday 17, to be held at the KTTC.
“The ‘Energy Week’ coincides with this year’s Mashujaa Day Celebration theme, which is ‘Clean Energy’ and as well a curtain raiser for the Mashujaa Day Celebrations, that will also be held in Kitui county and presided over by the president Dr William Ruto,” the CS Opiyo Wandayi said.
During his visit, Wandayi said that his Ministry is jointly working with various agencies including Kenya Power and Lighting, (KPLC), KETRACO, Kenya Pipeline among others, who are also spearheading this year’s Mashujaa Day Celebration, and working towards improving livelihoods of Kenyans.
“In courtesy of the Kenya Pipeline Company, Kitui Teachers Training College (KTTC), is now going to get an ultramodern water borehole that is solarized,” Wandayi noted.
The Cabinet Secretary further observed that the borehole is going to serve not only the teachers training institution, but also the neighborhood community.
He noted that the Petroleum Company is putting up a 20 meters high mask at the KTTC for lighting up the entire learning institution as well as its environment.
“Similarly, the state department for petroleum will provide necessary infrastructure for connection of cooking gas from the LPG storage facility to the kitchen for the college to transition fully from fossil fuels,” the CS added.
by Joy Mwangangi & Dennis Kithuka.
