CEO, Energy Chamber
As part of daily updates on the mission, Driver, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said the mission met with Aston Kajara, Uganda’s Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. On Tuesday—day two—the mission, accompanied by High Commissioner Patrick Edwards, met with Kajara and officials of the Uganda Investment Authority.
Currently, only around three of Uganda’s 33 million people are supplied by electricity to their homes. With a population some 25 times higher, Uganda has an installed capacity of only roughly one-quarter that of T&T, Driver stated. “To date, hydro-electricity has supplied the bulk of the nation’s electricity supply. Later in the day, members of the mission visited the Jinja hydro-electricity project some 56 kilometres east of Kampala at the source of the Nile River.