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Three senior employees of the state-run Kenya Power Lighting Company on Wednesday were charged with sabotage and neglect following a nationwide blackout that affected the country two weeks ago.
A high-voltage transmission line broke on 11 January, plunging the entire nation was into darkness. Power was restored in phases after several hours.
According to the charge sheet, the three staff members are accused of failing to maintain the high-voltage power lines and willfully neglecting to attend to towers that had been vandalised weeks before the blackout.
The three denied the charges and were freed on bail of $10,000 (£7,400) each, with the hearing of the case set for the last week in February.
