Ask him if he sits back and ponder over the excuses they give and how do they feel about it?

we did not experience such blackout during Uhuru Kenyatta

The problem is having a lawyer to head an engineering ministry... it never works... you need engineers to know distributed systems. I can't say the same for Davy

I must admit, it's refreshing to hear a KK guy take some level of responsibility.

Erick don't give space.....this are just incompetent characters

He sacked the former M.D and technical engineer. Even home generators kick in immediately and work well. They have excuses for everything

At least he praised President Kenyatta for the first time.

Systemic Saa ngapi wakati wa uhuru uliskia wapi JKiA hakuna stima ama roof Ina leak??Wacha story za jaba naniii

You and chirichiri just go home, we have never had this before, surely???

When installation of the generators were done, was there a process of comprehensive testing including stress testing? Waziri publish the test results and what was decided as the way-forward. Were subsequent tests performed to ensure that the desired results were achieved?

If we are able to install and configure generator, solar and UPS backup in our company, I don't see why an international airport if failing. In our system, the Generator takes 29 seconds to come on line. In those 29 seconds the UPS is in use. That means only the technician will notice the power outrage.

😂😂😂 Uhuru and Raila Took KPLC transmitters with them

I liked the professionalization of cabinet, because most politicians wouldn't make it in private sector without any collusion with govt, unless they somehow managed to pull of politics within a private company (which would be a bad sign for the prospects of that company). The current govt itself has communicated implicitly on the effectiveness of non-politicians: the housing agenda overly-relied on the PS Charles Hinga, who was a carryover from the previous govt. When the president traveled to the US, he hid then Trade CS Moses Kuria like _bangi_ and traveled with former CS Adan Mohamed. Just a couple examples my tired mind can pull off at the moment, but I know there are many such examples.

A government that is full of lies...full of excuses..This regime should not be allowed go go beyond 5 yrs... Kipchumba Murkomen should explain how he wears a 6 million watch with a salary of 1million..ama deals zimekua mingi..?

If anyone was to be fired it must be Murkomen. He is part of a very toxic regime.

The bullshit with this country is that especially KAA where do you get experts from yet the only organisation employig those experts are KAA. Why dont you promote the guys who have been there for ages. Why employs your kinsmen at the expense of guys who put in hard work. This recruitment will sink KAA further since the experts unless they were working for bigger airports than JKIA then its just a fallacy. The most incompetent CS so far

CT, your silence is very loud😅

Ask Cheregei to show you how to switch on the generators.

Once upon a time I was not seeing the sense from Cheragai but now I fully understand Cheragai

This guy sounds either confused or unsure of the situation. Even if the problem is solved, we will neither be sure of what the problem was nor which exact solution will work

You have been in the job for more than a year and no responsibility?

There are countries where this level of incompetence would be met with jail time. If we lived in an honourable society this fellow would have tendered in his resignation .

using big words like synchronization. Generator has a panel if no error and set to auto, the rest is stories. There is nothing for engineer to do on a panel. Ensure, service, fuel is full and that is it. The rest is stories. Let his share panel logs. You don't need DCI. Finally, Load shedding is design failure.

I think Murkomen should just do a honorable thing to render his resignation and accept that he has no idea of the docket he was offered. Keeping telling Kenyans "i think" manenos is not helping

Clueless individuals, sad state of kenya.

More power loaded!

Driving licence??? I was at the Upper Hill to take a photo for my DL after renewal and I was told that the systems were not working

People are able to install standby generators and use street technicians "electronics fundis" in the local market centres to synchronize their generators and test them yet Murkomen says the best airport in East Africa hasn't bee able to do so in one month period between the first blackout and the one on Sunday??😂😂

Thanks waziri for accepting that, technocrats are important irrespective of which regime

Uongo bwana we never experienced blackout during uhuru tenure

Murkomen you have failed us terribly, how are the outsiders taking us, it has never happened again, why is it happening during your time

I loke how you were direct with questions pointed to Murkomen

MD is seated in office 2 to 3 hrs a day and there is an engineer who is seated at the godown 8 to 9 hrs a day but he understands how that damn thing will switch in seconds with zero interruptions, let the game begin end of the day you will look for him in the godown to help the situation because things are thick! Pay this people well they deserve it stop this stories Waziri.

Along the Kenya highways; Nairobi to the Mombasa coast, to western Kenya to Homa Bay wherever telephone communication had reached, standby generators were installed with Japanese financing. The Telecommunication Assistant Engineer then resigned before the power plants were commissioned and i was employed to take over from him from Kenya Power and Lighting where I had been a Plant maintenance technician to take over from the previous Engineer. I was only under 30 years old and was able to supervise and synchronize over 25 generators for Kenya posts and Telecommunication and were no cases of failures. What is this issue of you establishing a whole ministry of Engineers to manage standby Generators which are within less than 5 miles distance, spending so much public money funds? I do not fail to know there are very advance electronic sensing systems today as compared to my time 48 years ago, Hon. Murkoman that can manage those generators Mombasa.

We need more then 1 scanner at Mombasa airport. Also needs renovation as parts of the roof panels are dirty , big time. Needs a clean up and some renovation.

the funny thing is even if blackout comes today. the generators will not kick in😂😂.

Good progress CS

Honestly speaking, Murkomen is objectively forthright

Please Erick Kipchumba is lying 1.he is not answering the question 2.he is pre_oquipied to justify what others are saying He does not have any clue of what happened 4.He is blaming Uhuru

Listening is a Virtue....the CS doesn't learn to Listen.....this is the problem of ujuaji infact early Ujuaji...

Poor Maintenance is across the board in nearly all institutions in Kenya. No accountability or responsibility therefore no change. He speaks about this issue with such glee. These things are not complicated if you employ the right folks.

Thankyou Eric for putting Murkommen to the spot.... Unfortunately Murkommen is a sweet talker, we give him the benefit of doubt for his work. January haiko mbali..😊

Chairman KAA Caleb Kositany

I have not watched this clip and I do not need to, my comment is there is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for the failures of KAA regarding JKIA. Mhe nipe kazi nifanye, we have more than enough qualified Kenyans that would sort out this mess within weeks. God bless Kenya 🎉❤

Building cattle tracks for highway price.

Theres nothing like the sync was not successful. You simply turnoff KPLC and test that the gen can work!

If we were a serious country, we'd have a qualified engineer as the CS for transport

Conflict of interest. He must have been busy changing suits and Rolexes whilst the generators are not kicking. He naut be as well sached as HE DID With the MD

Caleb Kositany, who was appointed 6 months ago by President Ruto as chairman of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), tweeted some fake news regarding Uhuru Kenyatta, just a few weeks ago, a screenshot of a fake article by an international business journal. The quoted (American) journalist in the fake news, responded to the tweet saying "I hope that you don't run your airports this carelessly". Word.

If incompetency is a person

The Question is straight then you beat around the bush and answer nothing.

This government just has failures. So many excess baggages. From generators at JKIA to Failure in KPLC and importantly lack of printing papers of passports in immigration and 1 year breakdown of passport printers. Whats really working? Hospitals? Education? Foreighn policy?

He does present a valid point and he's argued it well, the problem is the infrastructure to handle the load. So its not a questions of getting more power into the grid, but managing what's already in the the system. However his colleague Davis Chirchir is misleading and confusing Kenyans talking about a strained section of the grid then at the same time talking about power rationing and finally mentioning insufficient water in dams as problems

mr. Minister we are waiting for you to come to NEP. Remember your words when you were appointed.keep you word.

The biggest weakness of KK government is the quality of CSs Ruto appointed. Apart from Kindiki, the rest are incompetent political friends of the President. Many people may not know it, but one reason why Kibaki did so well with the economy is the cabinet he had. He had Kivutha Kibwana, Anyang Nyongo, Mukhisa Kituyi, Raila Odinga, Amos Kimunya, John Michuki and many other Matiang'is in his cabinet. But the current cabinet is irreparably weak. Ruto needs a brand new cabinet.

Honestly the more I listened to him, I agree that Murkomen is Simply incompetent.

Why at this time to sack someone at this difficulty time?

CS anaseme power consuption imeongezeke and venye stima imepanda bei i think people are using less electricity some using solar for lighting

Bwana CS thanks for the explanation because most of learn from media and KZfaq bloggers. Why all these generators when we can have Solar power Bwana CS.

Waiting for Njugush and Mamito with a sketch of switching on a generator 😂

114 president's have canceled there visits in Kenya 🇰🇪 for a period of 7 years. Imagine.

Would be great to hear mhesh's opinion on the airport for seems like the first sacking was unwarranted.

Once said before, they joined the government. They were skinny like the needle, and now ? they put more wait cos they don't work.

"The airport has been suffering"...how now? Just pure incompetence on the government side and Kenya airport authority.

Uhuru did not buy a new Generator wacha kiswahili mingi

We don't want power outages to sneak in stollen money or contraband. This guy is a smooth operator

He can’t fire anyone now because they wanted kalenjin nation so they can loot without interruption.

Murkomen. Don't defend this fault. It's a shame to our country

Uhuru has done excellent work,murgomen appreciating him

No quality standards or testing or public procurement processes. Cowboys on the job.

The guy is for sure clueless of his job bure kabisa

Murkomen. God bless you. Our God will show you His mercy and you will go through. Watu wa matusi wachana nao.

Why don't they do stimulations as many times as possible after synchronization to reduce chances of failure?

It should take 6 sec for gen to start and ATS to close. Automatically because of load, the two generators should start, synchronize load. This is not high engineering, only need qualified technicians .

If you cannot fix a generator, if you cannot fix a leaking roof, how will you fix the nations economy???

Can we know who is the technician in charge of putting on and off in the k p l c.We know we have 11 K V A, and 33 KVA and at no time do the 11 KVA get load to 33 K V A get. Even should loaded

Just listening to these guys talk is draining

I think the govt needs to hire me. I commented that the this was sabotage brah brah and more....

The CS should be sacked himself

Finyaaa....amesweat mbaka haga

Hon. Kipchumba, initiate systems- thinking, dopoliticise manpower rectiiynent

we have a failed engineering department at the airport,i think being the son of the soil we don't need audits,task-force on a routine maintenance issue.kindly have a good predictive maintenance instead of reactive maintenance.

Ndu please let the man speak! The CS's understanding of systemic problems is encouraging, but they need to work on fixing these underlying issues before end of their term

Cherargei was very right... Kipchumba is complicating a small problem.. You don't need Kengen or kplc to sort out this problem.

There's a senator who knows the problem and it's not a laughing matter

You can't run an engineering docket with the highest bar qualification. They will never sync.

The airport is not the only place that needs electricity - what about the hospitals' ICU and HDU? Businesses anchored on refrigeration services, domestic perishable items in fridges...lets stop pleasing a few visitors at the expense of the majority of Kenyans.

If they had working UPS backed up by batteries installed to the emergency power the blackout wouldn't be noticied. Shouldn't take more than 30 seconds for emergency generator with a functioning ATS to take over... just saying

Kwani it's only in JKIA ndo Kuna standby generator we have seen?...who do you procure generators without installation and maintainance contract?

This gvmnt has the majority of CSs which are clueless about their cabinet. A generator’s synchronization doesn’t need a button switch to be triggered but the word synchronize means it will kick off immediately when the power goes off. Please give us a break

Where was CT today? I could hardly hear him.

😂😂😂😂from high school I attended you couldn't realize when light goes off generator used to kivk in immediately . Why not in jkia

Is it possible that these problem are generated to give reason to allocate large sum of money for easy stealing . How come one year ago we didn’t have these problems and nothing has changed .

I just learned how I will be avoiding some questions from my curious wife... I I I...will come back to that... Then continue with my story, she will not remember her questions 😂😂😂

Best show ever🔥🔥

Live by example! RESIGN immediately! Like you sacked people!

It looks like KAA is not working. A CS is dealing with a generator... We are damned!

Murkomen was stammering more than Moses in the bible.

Wise man

Remember Cherargei akisema generator ni kitu ya kuvuta kamba mara tatu