Uganda: MPs Attack Govt Over Power Exports

UGANDA still exports electricity to neighbouring countries despite a crippling power crisis in the country, findings of a parliamentary committee have revealed.

A report by the Parliamentary Committee on National Economy assessing the current status of the economy shows that despite a deepening power shortage, partly due to low water levels, electricity exports to foreign countries have increased by 17 percent.

Committee chairperson, Ibrahim Kadunabbi (Butambala) told Daily Monitor by telephone on Wednesday that Parliament had discovered that the government continues to export power to Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda.

“It is a wrong move for government to export power when our people are suffering with darkness. This must stop immediately because the economy is suffering a paralysis.”

The Monitor (Kampala)