ERAat20: Analysing President Museveni’s relentless quest for reliable and affordable power and how that has transformed the electricity sector
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Hon. Dr. Mary Gorreti Kitutu takes President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on a guided tour of the newly upgraded Umeme power substation in Mbale City shortly after the President launched it on Monday, November 30th 2020. In the middle is the Umeme Managing Director, Selestino Babungi. The USD17m (about UGX64 billion) modern substation that was fully funded by Umeme as part of its USD75 million investment agenda for 2020, has created stable power supply, over and over increasing electricity supply to the Mbale region to from 25MW to over 112.5MW. PHOTO/Courtesy.
When the Yoweri Museveni led National Resistance Army (NRA) marched onto Kampala in January 1986, they took over a city that was poorly lit, its darkness not quite different from the bushes of Luwero they had emerged from.
Less than 5% of the country’s households had access to electricity.
The Owen Falls Dam in Jinja, virtually the country’s only source of electricity, in operation since
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