{"id":7771,"date":"2022-12-23T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2022-12-23T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:22:12","slug":"president-museveni-says-security-will-eliminate-electricity-infrastructure-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-says-security-will-eliminate-electricity-infrastructure-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT MUSEVENI SAYS SECURITY WILL ELIMINATE ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE VANDALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni has said that government security machinery is going to decisively deal with the rampant vandalism of the country&#8217;s electricity infrastructure . He said that although the problem that is costing the country millions of US dollars and leaving many parts of the country in prolonged blackouts- has not yet been officially brought to his attention , he was confident that the perpetrators shall be arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When we step in this problem shall be eliminated . We are going to arrest whoever is involved . This problem is here in Uganda and not Congo -we are going to deal with it decisively ,&#8221; President Museveni stated while responding to questions from journalists on why government has been slow in dealing with the problem  which appears to be- acts of national economic sabotage .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A jovial President Museveni was answering questions from media representatives and journalists  on a number of important national issues during an end of year interactive session held in Kampala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" data-attachment-id=\"7773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-says-security-will-eliminate-electricity-infrastructure-vandalism\/fkqlqegx0aaami0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1703\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FkqLQEGX0AAami0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FkqLQEGX0AAami0-scaled.jpg 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A jovial President Yoweri Museveni had a two hour end of year  interface with media representatives and journalists <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While addressing the media recently the Minister of  Energy and Mineral Development , Hon. Ruth  Nankabirwa said that in the last two years alone, the government has lost over $2 billion to the vandalism of electricity infrastructure. &#8220;We have to deal with this vice the way we deal with terrorism. Vandalism continues to cost the sector billions of shillings. We have requested for the services of the UPDF to guard key electricity infrastructure such as transmission towers and substations,\u201d said Nankabirwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite huge investments in the sector, the minister explained that Uganda continues to grapple with rampant cases of vandalism of power transmission and distribution infrastructure and urged the &nbsp;public to be vigilant and report those responsible the nearest police station and sister security agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nankabirwa explained that by cutting down electricity supply network it leads to wanton- power blackouts, threatens &nbsp;national security &nbsp;and&nbsp; homes; increases the cost of doing business and electricity tariffs, and disrupts vital health and education services as well as people\u2019s livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One electricity tower costs in the excess of 20,000 USDs and if not stemmed the economic loss to the country runs in billions of shillings .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has said that government security machinery is going to decisively deal with the rampant vandalism of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-electricity-vandalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/President-Museveni-Nakasero.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4679,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/power-blackout-in-kampala-is-due-to-vandalism-of-high-voltage-electricity-lines-in-areas-of-mukono-says-state-minister-okaasai-opolot\/","url_meta":{"origin":7771,"position":0},"title":"POWER BLACKOUT IN KAMPALA IS DUE TO VANDALISM OF HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICITY LINES IN AREAS OF MUKONO SAYS STATE MINISTER OKAASAI OPOLOT","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporters in Munyonyo Hardly two days after the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa decried the rampant vandalism of evacuation power lines and expensive towers across the country \u00a0\u2013 the vandals struck again -this time near the capital Kampala- in Mukono and brought down two high\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Energy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Energy","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/energy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-20211129-WA0086.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-20211129-WA0086.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-20211129-WA0086.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-20211129-WA0086.jpg 2x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-20211129-WA0086.jpg 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7813,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electricity-vandalism-police-arrests-key-suspect\/","url_meta":{"origin":7771,"position":1},"title":"Electricity Vandalism: Police Arrests Key Suspect","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"December 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Police is holding a one Edward Katongole, a Kampala-based scrap dealer accused of participating in the illegal sale of vandalized electricity equipment. 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