The cabinet has appointed Dr. Sarah Wasagali Kanaabi to chair the Board of Directors of the Electricity Regulatory Authority.
The board was set up to issue electricity generation, transmission, distribution, sale and import incenses.
Kanaabi is an economist with varied experience in administration, teaching, research, and policy formulation gained at the Islamic University in Uganda and Kyambogo University.
She has served on the Board of Directors of Private Sector Development Centre, Mbale and the Eastern Private Sector Development Centre Ltd.
Other members appointment on the board include; Amb. Joan Rwabyomwere, Eng. Erias Kiyemba, Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu and Eng. Joseph Oteng Otogo.
In other cabinet decisions, they approved the construction and upgrading of the National Road from Kasindi section (Border) to Beni (80km) and the integration of the Beni-Butembo Axis (54kms) to National Road; and the Bunagana (Border) –Ruchuru-Goma Road (89km) on grounds that the project will benefit the government and people of Uganda through the economic interconnectivity that would provide:
Improved mobility and ease of business; Improved people to people interconnectivity of the two countries, Improved security in the eastern DRC; and Increased (enhanced) trade and investment
It also approved the shift in response interventions and recommendations made for Phase IV of the COVID-19 pandemic as recommended by both the ministry of Health and the national task force on Pandemic as follows:
All arriving travellers would be required to have a negative test on arrival(72hrs) and for those presenting with symptoms at the airport without a test result, a sample will be collected upon arrival and the individual asked to quarantine at their cost until the result is returned.
Responsibility of ensuring that travellers are tested prior to travel, would rest with the airlines and all arriving travellers would no longer be subjected to institutionalised quarantine.
Testing for any of the recent travellers would be symptom based, in the event that they develop symptoms consistent with COVID-19.
Other recommendations stated that contacts will be advised to self-quarantine for 14 days and tested if symptomatic among others
