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Uganda’s energy officials trade blame over Karuma and Isimba dams

Uganda’s Energy and Mineral Development Minister Irene Muloni has held crisis meetings after receiving a letter from President Yoweri Museveni in which he raised the red flag over shoddy work at the country’s flagship hydropower projects — the 600MW Karuma dam and the 183MW Isimba dam.

The letter dated March 22 came after what sources described as a tell-it-all meeting at State House Entebbe with officials from Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) — the agency that is implementing the dam projects and own them on behalf of government — during which its CEO Harrison Mutikanga and board chairman Stephen Isabalija complained of the substandard work. 

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