Uganda to Hand Out Near-Life Sentences to Electric Infrastructure Vandals -Following the passing of Uganda's new Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 on Wednesday, Ugandans found guilty of vandalizing... -
Following the passing of Uganda’s new Electricity Bill 2022 on Wednesday, Ugandans found guilty of vandalizing electricity infrastructure may face a fine of $283,764.96 or a 15-year jail sentence, just five years short of the Ugandan life sentence term of 20 years.
The bill also seeks to prescribe the circumstances under which a holder of a generation or transmission licence may supply electricity to persons other than a bulk supplier to industrial parks at a tariff determined by the Ugandan government. The Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka defended the need for the hefty penalties, saying “The people taking down the power lines and other infrastructures are not the common people down there. These vandals are very sophisticated people. So we need to make the law very deterrent.
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