Kabale villages to get electricity
Feb 05, 2009
PLANS are in place to extend the national electricity grid to Rukiga and Kamwezi in Kabale district, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
By Raymond Baguma, Patrick Murangira and Bwogi Buyera
PLANS are in place to extend the national electricity grid to Rukiga and Kamwezi in Kabale district, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
“Electricity to Rukiga and Kamwezi is part of our plans and it will be worked on,†Museveni said without disclosing when the electricity extension work starts.
Museveni was yesterday addressing a public rally at St. Paul Bukinda SS playground in Kabale
district.
He said the former Rukiga MP, Jack Sabiti, had acted ‘like a weevil’ by blocking the Government’s plan to extend power to the area. As a result, Museveni said, the funds for extending electricity to the rural areas was diverted to buy generators for thermal power plants.
Museveni said this was why people did not vote for Sabiiti in the 2006 elections.
“Your leaders like Sabiiti were distracting us. They were not trustworthy and committed sacrilege. They failed government plans and caused a lot of havoc.
“I had contemplated setting the military against these detractors but I reconsidered my action because it would portray me as a tyrant,†the President said.
He said he was now working with the current Rukiga county MP, Sam Byanagwa.
In a veiled reference to the Rubanda West MP, Henry Banyenzaki, Museveni said: “But there is a young man who is unstable. I am going to examine and establish if his ailment is curable or chronic.â€
Museveni was responding to an appeal by the district chairperson, Adson Kakuru, to support the extension of electricity to areas such as Rubanda and Ndorwa.
Kakuru thanked the Government for planning to repair the Hamurwa floating bridge that links Kabale and Kanungu districts.
Earlier, the President laid a foundation stone for the construction of a laboratory building at Bukinda SS. The construction of the sh110m the building is being undertaken by the UPDF Engineering Brigade. It will be completed in three months.
The construction is part of activities undertaken by the army to mark this year’s Tarehe sita. Rukungiri district will host the national celebrations.
Tarehe Sita is held annually to commemorate the day when the then rebel National Resistance Army attacked Kabamba Barracks on February 6, 1981.
Museveni said the army decided to mark the day with community projects.
To the delight of the crowd, the President, in his military fatigue, performed several press-ups to stress the necessity of remaining healthy through physical exercises.
“Our army is not only for guns but they use their brains to work on roads, bridges and carry out construction. This requires brain power and educated people,†he said.
He said the Engineering Brigade had in the past built barracks, roads, bridges and drilled boreholes to facilitate the movement of military hardware during war.
He said the brigade has also built houses for civilians in Luweero, de-mined several areas in the north and provided relief assistance to flood victims in Teso.
He encouraged the skilled youth to join the army to boost its engineering department.
The commander of UPDF Airforce, Maj. Gen. Jim Oweyesigyire, said other activities the UPDF had carried out to mark the Army Week was to roof Rubanda primary school which was damaged by rains recently.
PLANS are in place to extend the national electricity grid to Rukiga and Kamwezi in Kabale district, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
“Electricity to Rukiga and Kamwezi is part of our plans and it will be worked on,†Museveni said without disclosing when the electricity extension work starts.
Museveni was yesterday addressing a public rally at St. Paul Bukinda SS playground in Kabale
district.
He said the former Rukiga MP, Jack Sabiti, had acted ‘like a weevil’ by blocking the Government’s plan to extend power to the area. As a result, Museveni said, the funds for extending electricity to the rural areas was diverted to buy generators for thermal power plants.
Museveni said this was why people did not vote for Sabiiti in the 2006 elections.
“Your leaders like Sabiiti were distracting us. They were not trustworthy and committed sacrilege. They failed government plans and caused a lot of havoc.
“I had contemplated setting the military against these detractors but I reconsidered my action because it would portray me as a tyrant,†the President said.
He said he was now working with the current Rukiga county MP, Sam Byanagwa.
In a veiled reference to the Rubanda West MP, Henry Banyenzaki, Museveni said: “But there is a young man who is unstable. I am going to examine and establish if his ailment is curable or chronic.â€
Museveni was responding to an appeal by the district chairperson, Adson Kakuru, to support the extension of electricity to areas such as Rubanda and Ndorwa.
Kakuru thanked the Government for planning to repair the Hamurwa floating bridge that links Kabale and Kanungu districts.
Earlier, the President laid a foundation stone for the construction of a laboratory building at Bukinda SS. The construction of the sh110m the building is being undertaken by the UPDF Engineering Brigade. It will be completed in three months.
The construction is part of activities undertaken by the army to mark this year’s Tarehe sita. Rukungiri district will host the national celebrations.
Tarehe Sita is held annually to commemorate the day when the then rebel National Resistance Army attacked Kabamba Barracks on February 6, 1981.
Museveni said the army decided to mark the day with community projects.
To the delight of the crowd, the President, in his military fatigue, performed several press-ups to stress the necessity of remaining healthy through physical exercises.
“Our army is not only for guns but they use their brains to work on roads, bridges and carry out construction. This requires brain power and educated people,†he said.
He said the Engineering Brigade had in the past built barracks, roads, bridges and drilled boreholes to facilitate the movement of military hardware during war.
He said the brigade has also built houses for civilians in Luweero, de-mined several areas in the north and provided relief assistance to flood victims in Teso.
He encouraged the skilled youth to join the army to boost its engineering department.
The commander of UPDF Airforce, Maj. Gen. Jim Oweyesigyire, said other activities the UPDF had carried out to mark the Army Week was to roof Rubanda primary school which was damaged by rains recently.