The Leader of Opposition in Parliament  Nandala Mafabi is demanding an explanation from Government the circumstances under which electricity supply has reduced in the country yet the government got a supplementary budget of 61 billion shillings in April this year to run up to September 2011.

According to the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company, the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) cut off supply to government due to non-payment of arrears totaling 200 billion shillings.

Nadala Mafabi, leader of opposition in Parliament

Power producer Aggreko switched off 50megawatts based at Kiira, in Jinja, Electro-maxx Ltd switched off 22 megawatts based in Tororo District, while Jacobsen Ltd shut down its 50-mw plant in Namanve on Wednesday, drastically cutting electricity supply to the national grid.

This has resulted in day and night long load shedding in different areas from 6am-spm and 6pm to 6am and power distributor Umeme tries to ration the available electricity.

Mafabi while addressing Journalists at Parliament said the Ministry of Energy and that one of Finance must be investigated over how they could let matters to get to this level.

He says the power blackout has caused confusion among the consumers most especially because they did not get enough notice to prepare themselves for the intermittent load shedding.

Mafabi is asking Ugandans to rise up and put to task the government to look for an immediate solution because if the current situation persists everything will be out of order with the increasing load shedding in the County.

By Isaac Senabulya