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Energy Ministry Orders UEDCL Board to Investigate Top Management Over Performance Gaps The Energy Ministry has tasked the UEDCL Board with investigating the top management over performance concerns. The review lands at a crucial moment when UEDCL is struggling to maintain a strained grid inherited from Umeme in April 2025.

A photo collage of Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa and UEDCL Managing Director, Paul Mwesigwa.

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has instructed the Board of the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the performance and conduct of the UEDCL’s top management, following major issues  raised in a recent audit and performance assessment by the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA). The directive follows a wave of public interest triggered by a letter from Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, who stepped in to halt the immediate dismissal of several senior UEDCL managers.  Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa had reportedly initiated the terminations, prompting the Prime Minister to call for a more…

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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