In March 2005, Umeme took over the assets of Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd, in effect inheriting the former UEB negative heritage of load shedding, poor customer services as well as a dilapidated network. 8 years later the situation has largely changed- there is practically enough power to meet most of the demand and significant investments have been made into fixing the bad network

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