UEDCL promises more improvement in power distribution as they mark 100 days

9 July 2025, 7:29 pm

By Ronald Ssemagonja

Its now 100 days since UMEME LIMITED handed over the electricity distribution responsibility to Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL). Its against this background that today, at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, officials from the distribution company, have addressed the country about how the 100 days have been. UEDCL says that they have deployed up to 96% and fully recruited from the UMEME existing staff base.

The reaming 4%, according to UEDCL, have been advertised extremely on the 16th and 19th June 2025 because they have no matching skills from the internal teams to fill the positions. All staff across 100 offices have now been inducted and aligned to the UEDCL culture, in order to create a workforce that gives maximum productivity. This is expected to enhance attainment of the organization’s strategic objectives in order to drive new connections to meet electricity regulatory authority target. A total of 550 staff have been recruited and deployed across the country.

Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited also says that they will add over 400 technicians by close of July 2025. UEDCL has a fully operational call center to enable customers have a full-time feedback mechanism with the company and urged them to utilize it. And that together with their skilled team they have maintained a physical and emotional contact with their customers throughout the transition period. UEDCL confirms that the past three months have been largely reactive and dominated by unplanned outages for the month of April and May 2025. And that it is due to stabilize the network in the short and mid term as planned investments are being rolled out for implementation to provide sustainable relief.

In her speech, the minister of Energy and Mineral Department, Hon. Ruth Nankabirwa has congratulated the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited for making 100 days since they took over the electricity infrastructure in the country. However, many people have been complaining about the way UEDCL does its duties and requested them to improve.