More than 87,000 to get connected as Government hands over materials to Umeme for last mile connections

The Government of Uganda has secured $100m (UGX360 billion) funding from the African Development Bank to switch-on some of the long-pending new electricity connection applicants under the Umeme footprint. Up to 87,500 no-pole of the 250,000 applicants, dating back to 2019, will benefit from the funding commissioned in Waibuga subcounty in Luuka District on Tuesday. Ruth Nankabirwa, the Energ