Butambala County MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi cited differences in figures presented by the Ministry of Finance, saying the money being transferred is different from the figures approved by Parliament.
Geoffrey Nyeko, the Palabek Kal Sub-County Chairperson says the area has not had electricity for the past two months without any PACMEC officials laboring to explain the cause of the power outage.
In her application filed through her lawyers Isaac Kugonza and Smith Kayanja, Mbabazi contends that she joined REA as an Assistant Procurement Officer in 2009 and in 2010 rose to the position of Procurement Officer. She explained that after successful interviews in 2013, she was appointed to the position of Head, Procurement and Disposal Unit.
The company lost at least 40 transformers to vandalism in addition to several other electricity supply infrastructure and illegal connections in the first half of 2018 alone. This translated into an estimated annual average loss of 100 billion shillings.
Mesach Ssebbula, the Kyannamukaaka sub-county chairperson says many households in the sub-county can still not connect to the power line because they are still far from their houses and people cannot individually meet the cost of extending the lines.
