The deceased identified as Benedict Benson Asiimwe, a resident of Mubende District died from St. John XXIII Hospital Aber where he was rushed for emergency care.
Under the free connection policy, a customer that required no pole was asked to pay only inspection fees, while the one that required one pole would pay 360,000 to be connected onto the power line. However, the project was suspended midterm in 2020 after government ran short of funds before it allowed power distribution companies to resume charging the customers full prices for the connections.
