KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda will not renew its contract with the country’s sole power distributor Umeme Ltd’s once it ends in less than two years, and will instead take over the business, an energy ministry official said on Wednesday.
“No, we are not renewing the concession. A decision has been taken for the government to take over that segment of the energy sector,” Solomon Muyita, spokesperson for the ministry of energy and mineral development told Reuters.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by James Macharia Chege)
