While the Bashers continued their cry-babying over the poor results of their sinister regime-change tool, the so-called walk-to-work campaign, particularly Dr Kiiza Besigye's hospitalisation in Nairobi, a momentous milestone was being achieved by the common Ugandans of the rural Kamwenge District. Sevo opened a mini-hydro power plant at Mpanga. This will help in increasing the energy production in the country and advance rural electrification. For the self-absorbed urbanite, middle-class elite and the 'Diasporado', this is a plus for their victim (Sevo) that they want to hush up quickly. One Basher on a social network played the classic shifting of goal-posts, which has been typical of these coup-plotters, by commenting: "... do not tell us what you're going to do, tell us what you've done ...". Of course the achievements of the Movement are known, but the Bashers believe that if they just keep denying them, they will go away and leave them with the victory most important to them: PR.
THE Government will subsidise the connection to the national electricity grid to give more people in rural and semi-urban areas electricity.
This was disclosed by President Yoweri Museveni on Friday while commissioning the 18MW Mpanga hydro-power project in Kamwenge district.
In 2005 when the country experienced acute power shortages, Museveni said short, medium and long-term measures were involved which included thermal power and small dams like Mpanga.
He added that the Government would soon commission more projects like the 6.5 MW Ishasha in Kanungu, the 9MW Buseruka in Hoima, the 3.5MW Nyagak in Nebbi, and the 6.8MW Kinyara-Bagasse project.
“This means by the end of this year, our renewable energy generation from non-Nile sources will be 80MW as compared to less than 20MW four years ago,” he said.
He listed the construction of the 14MW Kikagate in Isingiro, the 25MW Sipi in Kapchorwa and the 14MW Nyamwamba in Kasese due to start early next year, all by private companies, as the projects now in the pipeline.
“The advantage these projects have is that due to their minimal environmental impact, they do not attract much attention from our development partners and from environmental groups who normally create delays by demanding rigorous and unrealistic mitigation measures,” he said.
The Government’s major plan for sustainable supply, however, remains building big projects on the Nile like the soon to be commissioned 50MW of the 250MW Bujagali project, giving a total of 878MW. This, Museveni added, is 14 times the capacity of the then Owen falls dam in place since 1986.
Other dams to be built are Karuma, solely on government funds, which will provide above demand and help export power to Southern Sudan and Eastern Congo.
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