{"id":57826,"date":"2022-08-23T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=57826"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:23:45","slug":"energy-minister-in-need-of-shs22bn-for-nyagak-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/energy-minister-in-need-of-shs22bn-for-nyagak-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister in need of Shs22bn for Nyagak dam"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Damali Mukyaye<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development has said that operationalization of Nyagak power dam awaits the release of Shs22b by the government.<\/p>\n

Local leaders from West Nile have on several occasions protested numerous power outages in the region and have petitioned parliament to avert this.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Minister of energy, Ruth Nakabirwa said if 22 billion shilling is released by the government, the ministry will import the turbines required for operationalization of the dam.<\/p>\n

She says that this will see additional 6.5MW on the power grid of this country and will see a reduction in power outages in west Nile.<\/p>\n

The construction of the\u00a0<\/strong>Nyagak dam<\/strong>\u00a0was launched in 2006 as part of WENRECO\u2019s 20-year contract to supply\u00a0<\/strong>power<\/strong>\u00a0to the West Nile region. Since then, Nyagak 1 and 11 have been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Damali Mukyaye The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development has said that operationalization of Nyagak power dam awaits the release of Shs22b by the government. Local leaders from West Nile have on several occasions protested numerous power outages in the region and have petitioned parliament to avert this. In an interview with the Minister of energy, Ruth Nakabirwa said if 22 billion shilling is released by the government, the ministry will import the turbines required for operationalization of the dam. She says that this will see additional 6.5MW on the power grid of this country and will see a reduction in power outages in west Nile. The construction of the\u00a0Nyagak dam\u00a0was launched in 2006 as part of WENRECO\u2019s 20-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":57827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}