The board of the Electricity Regulatory is appearing before the probe committee into the energy sector that has been overshadowed by reports of corruption.

Members of the committee yesterday questioned the authority’s management over why new electricity tariffs were announced before they could be approved by the board.

The MPs demanded for a copy of the approved minutes which the management failed to produce.

Though the committee directed that the implementation of new tariffs be halted, the regulatory authority hit back, saying Parliament does not have powers to determine electricity tariffs.

The committee chairperson Jacob Oboth Oboth has tasked the ERA authorities to explain the statement issued, which he says belittled the oversight role of Parliament.

MPs Elijah Okupa and Reagan Okumu are demanding a clear explanation and extraction of the statement.

Rukungiri Municipality MP Roland Mugume says Parliament has the right to protect the interests of citizens and warns that the hiking of tariffs could spark protests.

The authority’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Benon Mutambi denies defying the committee, saying he only implied that retracting implementation of the new tariffs might be difficult.

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Many LCI executives especially chairpersons, vice chairpersons, and secretaries have been holding different stamps for the same village council. This has made them to sell property for more than once.

The habit of LCI chairpersons or members to sell plots of land more than once is so rampant in Buganda region and some parts of western Uganda .

However the issue of LCI executives of the same council holding different stamps has reached the ministry of local government. So the local government minister, Adolf Mwesigye says that the ministry is planning to use sub counties, divisions, town councils and municipalities each to print official stamps for LCI executives.

By James Okello

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