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Kenya Power and Lighting Company’s General Manager, Network Management Charles Mwaura has left the company after serving for 35 years.

Updating the public through the company’s official social media page, the outgoing General Manager Charles Mwaura hung his boots on Friday, May 31, 2024, during an event held at Stima Club in Nairobi.

“Hanging the Boots in Style, After serving Kenya Power for a good 35 years (from January 1989 to May 2024), outgoing General Manager, Network Management, Charles Mwaura, on Friday, 31st, 2024, bid the Company kwaheri in a colourful ceremony attended by dozens of staff members,” Kenya Power statement reads.

“During the event held at Stima Club in Nairobi, Mwaura arrived on top of a live-line truck and handed over his work equipment, a reflector jacket, and helmet as staff cheered on,”.

For the better part of his job at Kenya Power, Mwaura worked in the Operations and Maintenance division, later on after finishing the two-year graduate engineer apprenticeship, he joined O&M at emergency services and later became the Common Services Engineer.

“Popularly known as ‘Papa,’ a moniker he gained for his fatherly and humble approach to issues,  Mwaura has worked in the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Division at Kenya Power for most of his life,” Kenya Power said.

1/2 Hanging the Boots in Style: After serving Kenya Power for a good 35 years (from January 1989 to May 2024), outgoing General Manager, Network Management, Eng. Charles Mwaura, on Friday, 31st, 2024, bid the Company kwaheri in a colourful ceremony attended by dozens of staff… pic.twitter.com/pRT4vX51fn

— The Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc. (@KenyaPower) June 3, 2024

“After finishing the two-year graduate engineer apprenticeship, he joined O&M at emergency services and later became the Common Services Engineer (the team that handled underground cables and 66kV sub-transmission in Nairobi),”.

Mwaura’s work at Kenya Power

Mwaura rose through the ranks to become the Chief Engineer of Common Services in Nairobi.

In 2014, he became the Regional Manager for the Nairobi North Region. Papa later became the General Manager of Network Management in December 2019, a position he held until retirement.

Being the brainchild of lifeline operations in distribution and sub-transmission networks, Mwaura is the most experienced engineer in underground cables, which he revamped and equipped with the capacity.

He has also been the Chairman of the Status of the Network Committee, an energy sector committee. He is the most experienced engineer in underground cables, which he revamped and equipped with the capacity to handle all voltages up to 220kV. Mwaura was part of the brainchild of Liveline operations in distribution and sub-transmission networks.

He has worked all his time in Nairobi, mainly because of the concentration of underground cables.

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