Ugandans Jubilate After Internet Blockade Lifted

Uganda is officially out of internet darkness that was slapped on them a day before the just concluded Presidential elections held on January 15.

“This was like Covid-19 time,” Jane Acan told Topafricanews reporter on Sunday.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of elections after securing 72% of the vote.

The Electoral Commission said that about 52% of the nearly 22 million registered voters cast ballots.

The opposition National Unity Platform candidate Robert Kyagulanyi fetched 24.72 percent of the vote, according to the official results.

Kyagulanyi said the votes were rigged. He showed a video of Electoral Commission officials ticking all ballot papers in favor of Museveni at a polling station in western Uganda.

“We voted. We tried to protect our vote but the state operatives arrested or abducted many of our agents and officials,” Kyagulanyi said.

Museveni is credited for building from scratch the country’s oil sector. Uganda is expected to pump out it’s first oil this year.

Uganda oil boom is projected to spring the country to the ranks of high middle-income countries.

French oil major TotalEnergies SE and China’s Cnooc Ltd are expected to start production from their Ugandan fields in October.

The government expects the economy to grow seven-fold to $500 billion by 2040.