Uganda’s Museveni inspects dam blocked by 16-acre moving island

Ugandan’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday visited the site where a 16-acre moving island partly blocked the Nalubale Bridge.

The moving island also moved towards the dam nearby causing a power blackout last week.

Museveni was just about addressing Ugandans on April 14 on the coronavirus pandemic when the country was plunged into a blackout that lasted for close to 20 minutes.

Government officials later apologised and blamed the blackout on the erosion of heavy-moving island and plantations by the heavy rain on the shores of Lake Victoria.

They said the movement was as a result of increased water levels.

Ugandan engineers have been working to remove the islands and plantations which are affecting the filtering of water for generating power at the dam.

“Inspecting the extent of damage caused by a 16-acre moving island that partly blocked Nalubale Bridge and also moved towards the dam causing a power blackout,” Mr Museveni said on twitter on Sunday.

He said “Concerted efforts from NEMA, UPDF, National Fisheries Research Institute, UNRA, MAAIF and Ministry of Works have enabled us to push the moving island from its risk location to the bay near Jinja pier.”

The Bazukulu have not seen this before. It first happened in 1964. pic.twitter.com/XxyS57nlbK

— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 19, 2020

Inspecting the extent of damage caused by a 16-acre moving island that partly blocked Nalubale Bridge and also moved towards the dam causing a power blackout. I can see works on the ground to contain the movement of this island and restore normalcy. pic.twitter.com/r83W9ZVlTs

— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 19, 2020