{"id":224626,"date":"2026-02-22T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ignore-graphics-claiming-kenyas-electricity-transmission-board-is-only-constituted-by-kalenjin-members\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:06:52","slug":"kenya-ignore-graphics-claiming-kenyas-electricity-transmission-board-is-only-constituted-by-kalenjin-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ignore-graphics-claiming-kenyas-electricity-transmission-board-is-only-constituted-by-kalenjin-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ignore Graphics Claiming Kenya&#8217;s Electricity Transmission Board Is Only Constituted By Kalenjin Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Social media in Kenya is awash with graphics claiming the board of the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company is all members of the Kalenjin ethnic group. But this claim is false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketraco.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenya Electricity Transmission Company<\/a> (Ketraco) is responsible for the national power transmission grid and the security of electricity supply in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Ketraco board of Management today had a meeting and the language they used in that meeting was Kalenjin,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=3279058962263359&amp;set=a.493026600866623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a> the caption to a graphic circulating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200542.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT: Social media in Kenya is awash with graphics claiming the board of the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company is all members of the Kalenjin ethnic group. But this claim is false. The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) is responsible for the national power transmission grid and the security of electricity supply in Kenya. &#8220;Ketraco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":224627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6727,18590,46948,4895,51628,13180,53722,4688,430,6097,4326,257,254,16187],"class_list":["post-224626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-board","tag-claiming","tag-constituted","tag-electricity","tag-graphics","tag-ignore","tag-kalenjin","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-members","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transmission"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}