{"id":10856,"date":"2026-02-26T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:13:08","slug":"continued-power-blackout-affecting-business-operations-in-masindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2026\/02\/26\/continued-power-blackout-affecting-business-operations-in-masindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued Power Blackout Affecting Business Operations in Masindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Flavia Ajok<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Business operators in Kabarwana Cell, Central Division of Masindi Municipality are expressing frustration after spending nearly two weeks without electricity, a situation they say has severely disrupted their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>The traders say the prolonged blackout has paralyzed their businesses, as most of them depend entirely on electricity to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Gorret Murungi, a shop attendant says they were informed that the area transformer developed a fault. However, despite that explanation, they have now spent about two weeks without power.<\/p>\n<p>She notes that they are no longer selling cold drinks, which are among their fastest-moving items, especially during the dry season.<\/p>\n<p>She has appealed to the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to urgently intervene and restore power.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Muhwezi, a barber says the outage has left his family struggling to get basic necessities as they survive on daily earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Muhwezi adds that despite paying taxes to the Uganda Revenue Authority and municipal authorities, they continue to suffer losses due to the blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Olima, another barber, says he has resorted to using a rechargeable shaving machine, which he describes as inefficient and costly to maintain claiming that the prolonged power outage has contributed to increased theft cases in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok Business operators in Kabarwana Cell, Central Division of Masindi Municipality are expressing frustration after spending nearly two weeks without electricity, a situation they say has severely disrupted their livelihoods. The traders say the prolonged blackout has paralyzed their businesses, as most of them depend entirely on electricity to operate. Gorret Murungi, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}