Kenyans should brace themselves for hard times with the power rationing programme put to effect.

The power rationing programme announced by the energy minister yesterday will see businesses lose millions of shillings as most parts of the country will go without power most of the day.
But the move by the government raises a lot of questions considering what has been witnessed before when such directives are given.

As much as we would not like to speculate or read a sinister motive, with all due respect the Kenyan government has goofed big time. Our leaders should think twice and be good managers, they should learn to be proactive and stop throwing their weights when disasters have happened. The country has been going through water rationing and now power rationing and we dream of getting the economy back to the recovery path. The manufacturing industry will bore the brunt as well as businesses outside the Central Business Districts and industrial areas across the country.

Right now, many consumers are outraged that, besides being subjected to longer hours of rationing, they will be expected to pay a lot more for a lot less power. However, the sector has little choice but to charge more if, as it must, it takes stop-gap measures to supplement the little power available.

But Kenyans take this as an ambush since power generators new that such a crisis would hit the country yet they opted to keep quite until when its inevitable the more reason why the move is questionable.

The last time Kenya experienced programmed power supply was between 1999 and 2001 which resulted in two consecutive years of negative economic growth.