Bya Mugula Dan
Minisita wa Uganda ow’amasannyalaze, Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu asabye ekitongole ekigaba amasannyalaze ekya Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited UEDCL okukulembeza okutuusa amasannyalaze agesigika okwetoloola eggwanga.
Ruth Nankabirwa ku Media Center
“Tetwagala kizikiza ku ssaawa 12 ez’emisana,” Nankabirwa bwe yalangiridde ng’alaga nti gavumenti emaliridde okukola ku kusoomoozebwa kw’amasannyalaze.
Agamba nti okutumbula obwesigwa bw’amasannyalaze si kugaziya mudumu gwa masannyalaze gwokka wabula n’okukendeeza ku kuvaako naddala emisana ng’amasannyalaze ge gasinga okwetaagisa.
Mu kwogera kwa Nankabirwa yagambye nti ekigendererwa ekinene eky’okuyunga amaka amapya 400,000 ku mudumu. Kino okukituukiriza, yasabye UEDCL okugenderera okufuna emikutu 30,000 ku 35,000 buli mwezi.
“Ttiimu, tewali tulo,” bwe yagamba ng’aggumiza obwangu bw’omulimu.
Minisita yakkirizza amakulu g’amasannyalaze agesigika mu mbeera z’abantu n’ebyenfuna, n’alaga omulimu gwe gakola mu kutumbula obulamu obwa bulijjo.
“Abantu baagala masannyalaze. Waliwo emirembe mu ggwanga. Abantu baagala kunyumirwa; baagala kulaba mupiira. Baagala kunyumirwa nnyogovu,” bwe yategeezezza n’agattako ekintu eky’obuntu ku kwolesebwa kwe okwa Uganda erimu amasannyalaze.
Nankabirwa yakkaatirizza obukulu bw’okulongoosa n’okulabirira ebizimbe by’amasannyalaze, omuli siteegi entonotono, tulansifooma, ne layini ezigabibwa okusobola okutuukiriza obwetaavu obweyongera.
Ono era alajaanidde abantu okutwala obuvunaanyizibwa ku layini z’amasannyalaze ku kibanja kyabwe, n’abasaba okugogola ebimera okutangira okutaataaganyizibwa.
“Lwaki togogola layini zino?” yabuuzizza ng’alaga obuvunaanyizibwa obw’okugabana mu kulabirira omukutu gw’amasannyalaze.
Minisita yakubye mu ngalo enkulaakulana ey’amaanyi mu kukendeeza ku kufiirwa kw’amasannyalaze, okukka okuva ku bitundu ebisukka mu 38 ku 100 okutuuka ku bitundu nga 15-16 ku 100.
Ennongoosereza eno evudde ku nsimbi eziteekeddwa mu bikozesebwa n’okussaawo mita ezisasulwa nga tezinnabaawo, kukomye obubbi bw’amasannyalaze n’okulongoosa mu kusolooza ssente.
Wabula Nankabirwa yalabudde nti ebibonerezo ebikakali byebalindiridde abakwatibwa nga babba amasannyalaze oba okwonoona ebizimbe.
Etteeka ly’amasannyalaze erya 1999 eryalongoosebwamu kati lissa ebibonerezo ebikakali ku bamenyi b’amateeka.
Yakkaatirizza nti: “Ezo ze tunaafuna zijja kukola ng’ebyokulabirako.”
Ng’akola ku kweraliikirira ku layisinsi ya UEDCL eyaggwaako, Nankabirwa yagumizza abakozi nti enteekateeka y’okuzza obuggya egenda mu maaso, n’abalabula obutatya.
Era yasabye wabeewo empisa n’okukola obulungi mu kibiina kino, n’alaga bulungi nti gavumenti tegenda kugumiikiriza nguzi oba obutamanya mu kitongole ky’amasannyalaze.
Minisita yakwataganya okulongoosa mu kitongole ky’amasannyalaze n’ebigendererwa bya Uganda ebigazi mu by’enfuna, n’akakasa nti amasannyalaze agesigika kikulu nnyo mu kukulaakulanya amakolero, embeera y’obulamu obulungi, n’okukulaakulana mu bizinensi.
“Amasannyalaze ga bbeeyi,” bwe yajjukizza abalabi, n’akubiriza okukozesa obulungi amasannyalaze n’okugoberera obuvunaanyizibwa bw’okusasula.
Bwe yabadde amaliriza okwogera kwe, Nankabirwa yazzeemu okulaga obukulu bw’amasannyalaze agesigika mu bulamu obw’omulembe guno. “Tetwagala kizikiza naddala si misana,” bwe yagambye n’anyweza obweyamo bwa gavumenti okutangaaza ebiseera bya Uganda eby’omu maaso.
Nga tukola ku kusoomoozebwa kw’okugabira abantu amasannyalaze n’okusindiikiriza okugaziya okufuna amasannyalaze, Uganda yeetegese okutuuka ku bugumu obw’amaanyi mu by’enfuna n’okutumbula omutindo gw’obulamu eri bannansi baayo.